On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:18 PM, ceki <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25.05.2012 19:42, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> Over in Commons-lang we've been following the Apache guideline to avoid >> @author tags, these grow quickly to long and stale lists. The POM can be >> used to track who contributes, all in one place. I propose to remove >> @author tags here as well (1.x has these tags, I am not sure about 2.0). >> > > This has been proposed several times in the past and rejected each time. >
I do not see why we should go against the Apache board's decision: - author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications around the use of author tags from: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/%[email protected]%3E Furthermore and because I have not worked with Ceki in the past, I cannot help but see a conflict of interest with his non-ASF logging projects. Gary > Gary >> >> > > -- > Ceki > http://twitter.com/#!/ceki > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > log4j-dev-unsubscribe@logging.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected].**org<[email protected]> > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
