Then what do we do with new people if some of them insist to have the
@author tag and some don't?
/Janne
On 31 Mar 2008, at 19:58, Harry Metske wrote:
Although I'm not a committer I'd like to comment :
I think both of you are right, there is code that is submitted
initially
fairly complete, and is not patched much afterwards, and if it is
patched,
it is only small bug fixes. In those cases you would want to keep the
@author tags.
On the other hand there is code that is initially submitted as a
simple
first prototype, and is afterwards greatly enhance by others. In
those cases
you should remove the @author tags.
If it is not exactly mandated by ASF how to deal with, let everyone
decide
for himself how to handle it, and you don't have to handle every
piece of
code the same, for some pieces keep your @author tag, for others
remove them
?
How about that, everybody happy ?
regards,
Harry
2008/3/31, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
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