Case in point: The author of LuceneSearchProvider has not
contributed anything in what, two years? Yet he still stands in
as the @author. Would you go to him to ask for help, or should
you go to the mailing list?
I'd ask the list, but I would likewise *know* that the author hasn't
been seen for two years, information that would be lost if the tag had
been removed.
The @author tag does not encode that information. Therefore, nothing
would be lost, if it were removed (and it might probably be a good
idea to remove it at that stage).
The code should really stand on its own legs.
You're saying you have your name on code you don't understand?
Yes. Other people have modified code for which I am still the
@author, and I can't really claim that I know what that code does
anymore... And I'm pretty sure I have modified a lot of the code
that other people claim to be @author of, and they no longer have any
idea what is going on.
That's how it goes with projects that have been running for nearly
seven years now.
/Janne
