My bad. If so, we should probably remove the existing author tags.

Thanks
Karthik

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Matthieu Morel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu Nov 10 17:15:02 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote:
>
>> Also, it might be a good idea to take responsibility for individual
>> modules
>> and annotate the source files in that module with our names.
>>
>
> That's officially discouraged in Apache.
>
> see http://mail-archives.apache.**org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-**
> dev/200402.mbox/%3C4039F65E.**[email protected]%3E<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/%[email protected]%3E>
>
> "- 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"
>
>
> Matthieu
>

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