Its just a practice we've maintained for a while - I have no preference one way or the other.
Regards, Les On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > Kalle Korhonen wrote: > >> I don't know if it's an ASF policy, but yes, I've seen the same >> discussions >> happening in other projects and the decision has typically been to remove >> the author tags. My opinion is that the author tag creates more problem >> than >> it solves, especially for open source projects. >> >> Kalle >> >> >> > Ok, having spent the 5 minutes to search on Apache site : > > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_09_22.txt > > " > > F. Confirming that the current stance on @author tags as > per Greg's email message of February is still appropriate > (Recommend strongly that @author is avoided; but leave it to > each PMC to make the final call with their respective > communities.). > > This was confirmed." > > > So it's recommended, not mandatory. As we don't have a PMC right now (but > we will have one when the project will exit incubation), there is no > urgency, but I think it's a good timing to decide what to do regarding this > item. > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
