Hi, Most projects at the ASF decided a year or two ago to discard @author tags, either to just stop using them, or even to go into the files and remove the existing ones. You've covered some of the reasons why this is a decent idea, and there's another good reason which is legal coverage. I don't have time to go into details, but anyways @author tags are not essential to remove: OFBiz can keep them in, take them out, whatever you want: it's up to the project, there's no ASF mandate.
Yoav On 10/7/06, David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I think it would be good to toss these. There are various problems with them too. I've noticed a lot of author listings that are incorrect because a header was just copied from another file and the author list never changed and such. -David On Oct 7, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > Hi all, > > what about removing the author information from source files (like > I did in rev. 453960)? > > Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the > ASF (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be > derived from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned > this practice for new files... what about cleaning the old ones? > > Jacopo
