On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:38:01AM -0500, Scott Hyndman wrote: > On a side note, I'm hoping to see the @author tag implemented soon.
Care to elaborate? I ask because I try to discourage the use of @author in (Java) code we produce at work, reasons being: - Although it initially indicates the best person to question about a particular bit of code, other people will change the file later, and likely will fail to update the tag - Staff turnover will make the information irrelevant - The authorship of each file is accurately and automatically recorded by the version control system, anyway - It can discourage people from taking ownership of the code, when needed, because it 'belongs' to someone else On the plus side though, people *should* be proud of the code they write and want to put their name to it. I'd suggest that such (commendable [1]) hubris should be displayed at a higher level though, e.g. in the package or app/library as a whole. So, Would some kind of global option for specifying authorship suit your needs? This could additionally be used to define Dublin Core 'creator' metadata in the generated HTML, which would be a nice bonus. your thoughts are appreciated! dave [1] http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/virtues.html -- http://david.holroyd.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
