Re: @author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-28 Thread Stephan Michels
Am Fr, den 27.02.2004 schrieb Tim Larson um 16:25: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:32AM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote: I don't think the ASF should discourage developers from keeping useful metadata about the code inside the source

Re: @author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote: I don't think the ASF should discourage developers from keeping useful metadata about the code inside the source files. What better place to put the metadata than in the code? This makes it more likely to be used and kept up to date than if it

Re: @author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Vendredi, 27 fév 2004, à 12:59 Europe/Zurich, Vadim Gritsenko a écrit : The Apache Cocoon Team +1 and +1 on Dirk-Willem's view as well. -Bertrand

Re: @author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-27 Thread Tim Larson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:32AM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote: I don't think the ASF should discourage developers from keeping useful metadata about the code inside the source files. What better place to put the metadata than in the

Re: @author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Tim Larson wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:32AM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote: I don't think the ASF should discourage developers from keeping useful metadata about the code inside the source files. What better place to put the

@author tags (WAS: RE: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004)

2004-02-26 Thread Conal Tuohy
I agree with Antonio about the utility of @author tags (I have also found them very useful), and I also think that the ASF board's concerns about the dangers of ownership are probably overblown. I don't think the ASF should discourage developers from keeping useful metadata about the code