On 8 October 2014 10:39, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/10/14 09:30, Christian Berendt wrote: >> After proposing a change to Horizon to remove the @author tags from >> the header of Python files >> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126656/) Matthias Runge proposed >> to discuss this first on the mailing list. >> >> Is it necessary to track the authorship of a file inside the file >> using @author tags? > > Git is a lot better in attributing authorship, so for me, @author tags > are just a waste of precious disk bytes and cpu cycles.
The tags also make people worried about changing 'somebody else's thing', are difficult to make meaningful over time (how much of a function do you need to change to claim authorship of it) and generally give no significant benefit. While I don't currently work on Horizon, I vote for scrapping them and putting a hacking check in to keep them out. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
