jdaugherty commented on PR #15245: URL: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15245#issuecomment-3599151359
> @matrei Unless we commit to a policy of maintaining source history **_and_** restore the [previously deleted history](https://github.com/apache/grails-core/commit/4e8ace8eb0fe6b7470b60664db692872c884eb85), I feel `@author` tags are necessary From when we were in incubation, we learned that one of the major policies of the ASF is to not have authorship of individual files. They even encourage removing `@author`. The line of thinking is that individual authorship discourages contribution to a specific file because someone else is seen as an author. Longer term, we will have to remove these. Our first step is adding all contributors to the pom files as authors and handling this at the project level. There is currently a discussion underway on the mailing list about how best to accomplish this: https://lists.apache.org/thread/c33fx3djh17tl67y0g3szhvsq98cq2jc @jamesfredley FYI -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
