Sounds good to me - as long as people are recognized for their efforts somewhere, I don't care where :)
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jeremy Haile <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Les Hazlewood wrote: > > 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'? >> > > Giving credit is fine, but I'm not a huge fan of @author tags. I feel > like, intended or not, they convey a sense of "code ownership". I've seen > situations where people feel like they can't edit a file because someone > else is listed as the author - which is obviously not the environment we > want. Also, am I an author if I edit one log statement in a 3000 line > class? It just seems messy, hard to accurately maintain, and not that > meaningful. > > I like Emmanuel's ideas of giving credit via a notice file, JIRA, SVN, or > some other mechanism. > > Just my 2 cents. >
