I've thought about this for a bit longer and I feel it is nice for people that aren't committers (whose names that don't appear on in an SVN log) to receive credit for their efforts. They deserve it, even in this minor form. If not via @author tags, how does the ASF recommend to 'give credit where credit is due'?
I don't care if it is via @author tags or something else, as long as they receive visible credit so we can convey they are a meaningful and appreciated part of the community. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >
