Re: removing most @author tags
On 7/10/07, Yonik Seeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Should we remove all author tags for solr code, or only for those who voted +1?... I'd say all author tags, and just in case here's my belated +1 to the proposal that started this thread. -Bertrand
Re: removing most @author tags
OK, so it seems there's general agreement to remove author tags. Should we remove all author tags for solr code, or only for those who voted +1? Anyone care to whip up a script? -Yonik
Re: removing most @author tags
: Should we remove all author tags for solr code, or only for those who voted +1? eh. i say we do it all .. if anyone really wanted to keep their author tags they would have said something. : Anyone care to whip up a script? find -name \*.java -and -not -wholename \*.svn\* | xargs perl -i -ne 'print unless /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' should i go ahead and commit ... or do people disagree with the remove all ? ... it's fairly easy to change it it to only remove a single author line. -Hoss
Re: removing most @author tags
FWIW, http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CodeOfConduct (totally unofficial) discourages them as well, but leaves it up to the PMC... And I recall seeing a Nutch or Hadoop email wanting to remove them as well. On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Bill Au wrote: +1 Bill On 7/2/07, Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yonik Seeley wrote: In the spirit of shared ownership, what do people think of getting rid of @author tags (for committers or other dev people that consent?). Other apache projects have done so, for a host of reasons. - some people don't use author tags, hence credit is uneven - author tags tend to only credit the original author, and not everyone that works on the code after (or does code reviews, lends ideas, etc, etc) - we have CHANGES.txt to generally credit people (and it prob does a better job) you forgot another big reason people tend to email people in the @author tags directly, instead of using the lists.
Re: removing most @author tags
: In the spirit of shared ownership, what do people think of getting rid : of @author tags (for committers or other dev people that consent?). : Other apache projects have done so, for a host of reasons. +1 : $ find . -name \*.java | xargs grep '@author'| grep -i hoss | wc : 2 8 152 wow ... that's 2 more then i expected to see. -Hoss
Re: removing most @author tags
Thoughts? +1 It does feel a bit akward.
Re: removing most @author tags
On 2-Jul-07, at 11:32 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: In the spirit of shared ownership, what do people think of getting rid of @author tags (for committers or other dev people that consent?). Other apache projects have done so, for a host of reasons. - some people don't use author tags, hence credit is uneven - author tags tend to only credit the original author, and not everyone that works on the code after (or does code reviews, lends ideas, etc, etc) - we have CHANGES.txt to generally credit people (and it prob does a better job) I've seen a better list of reasons elsewhere, but my main motivation was that it didn't feel right having my name spashed all over code that many other people are contributing to now. Thoughts? +0, though I think it is mostly a decision for those who have already tons of @author tags in the repo. FWIW, our internal repository was in a similar situation: I was __author__ of 90% of the files, though certainly not the sole contributor to all of those files. I decided to strip this attribution for precisely the reasons you enumerated. -Mike
Re: removing most @author tags
Yonik Seeley wrote: In the spirit of shared ownership, what do people think of getting rid of @author tags (for committers or other dev people that consent?). Other apache projects have done so, for a host of reasons. - some people don't use author tags, hence credit is uneven - author tags tend to only credit the original author, and not everyone that works on the code after (or does code reviews, lends ideas, etc, etc) - we have CHANGES.txt to generally credit people (and it prob does a better job) you forgot another big reason people tend to email people in the @author tags directly, instead of using the lists.
