On 5/9/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author tags imply ownership, commits don't.
Yes. The legal theory is that when we commit the code, we are
accepting the donation on behalf of the ASF. Sometimes we are
accepting a donation that we ourself might have created. Other times,
Martin van den Bemt wrote:
Well, I ask you... if anybody can figure out who wrote whatever code
anyway, what difference is it if you put in an @author tag or not? It
amounts to appending information that is available anyway, right?
Author tags imply ownership, commits don't.
sigh
I really
Martin van den Bemt wrote:
Jonathan Revusky wrote:
Nathan Bubna wrote:
In general, I wonder about the whole psychology behind the removal of
@author tags. After all, the technical/pragmatic arguments in favor of
removal strike me as extremely weak. So it has me wondering, what are
the *real*
Ted Husted wrote:
On 5/9/07, Martin van den Bemt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author tags imply ownership, commits don't.
Yes. The legal theory is that when we commit the code, we are
accepting the donation on behalf of the ASF. Sometimes we are
accepting a donation that we ourself might have
--- Jonathan Revusky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lead developer, FreeMarker project,
http://freemarker.org/
For a lead developer of concurrent project you are
spending a lot of time on wrong list. Are you trying
to
paralize any discussion here? I must admit,
that you and Dacotha Jack is the
Konstantin Priblouda wrote:
--- Jonathan Revusky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lead developer, FreeMarker project,
http://freemarker.org/
For a lead developer of concurrent project you are
spending a lot of time on wrong list. Are you trying
to
paralize any discussion here?
LOL
No, not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please stop the noise!
:) Christoph
Christoph, what noise are you referring to? There's a conversation
going on that you weren't even involved in. Nobody was even talking to
you. And I didn't start this whole thread about @author tags. For the
most part, I lurk on
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Jonathan,
Jonathan Revusky wrote:
I simply pointed out that the reasoning offered for wanting to remove
the @author tags was quite tenuous, to say the least.
You did more than that... you went on to bash the project and its
current members, which
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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Jonathan,
Jonathan Revusky wrote:
I simply pointed out that the reasoning offered for wanting to remove
the @author tags was quite tenuous, to say the least.
You did more than that... you went on to bash the project
Nathan Bubna wrote:
On 5/3/07, Henning P. Schmiedehausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
just sitting in Aarons' incubating open source communities talk and
a subject that came up again is removing the author tags. I know, that
in the past, I've been -1 on this but as we do have a CONTRIBUTORS
Nathan Bubna wrote:
On 5/3/07, Ahmed Mohombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base
and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a
link to the dev-list.
How about doing this?
-1 from me as a user.
In a lot of
Will Glass-Husain wrote:
(Let me try this again)
Thanks, Ted.
That's a great email.
I read it and drew a rather different conclusion.
All the reasons cited make sense.
sigh
Will, don't you see some problems of logical cogency in the text that
Ted Husted cited?
I mean, at some point
Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm mostly neutral, though a slight preference for keeping them. I kind of
like the way the author tags highlight (at a very coarse level) the history
of a class. But I don't feel strongly.
What's the primary
Wow is it really that time of year already? It's time for the Annual
Revusky Flamewar! Yay!
Jonathan: they're talking about removing the @author tags because, as
you guessed, there IS an international conspiracy! But what you don't
know is you're the center of it all!!! This goes beyond
I agree the @author tags discussion is idiotic but it's not my list.
Nor is it yours. Be curious about motivations if you like but in that
case just email the people you want to talk to. I have to follow this
list, because I do use Velocity, and have modified it for my own
purposes. The
Jason Pettiss wrote:
I agree the @author tags discussion is idiotic but it's not my list.
Nor is it yours. Be curious about motivations if you like but in that
case just email the people you want to talk to. I have to follow this
list, because I do use Velocity, and have modified it for my
Jason Pettiss wrote:
Aye, it's an open list, say what you want. I will too. The features
that have been ignored for so long are features I didn't even want
supported in the first place. The bugs I needed fixed, were fixed.
Jason, we've had some private dialogue, which kind of degenerated. I
Monday, May 7, 2007, 4:37:53 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
Well, I dunno. Why does a guy sit on a bike, wearing the culotte and
other cyclist paraphernalia, when he doesn't even like cycling?
I don't know, maybe it's that the starting was already wrong. If I
know well, basically, Velocity was
I suppose I could fittingly add I'm rubber, you're glue, I use Velocity
and not FreeMarker so too bad for you.
But I won't.
oh wait.
Daniel Dekany wrote:
Monday, May 7, 2007, 4:37:53 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
Well, I dunno. Why does a guy sit on a bike, wearing the culotte and
other
Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base
and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a
link to the dev-list.
How about doing this?
-1 from me as a user.
In a lot of projects when I had problems, I was able to ask directly the
author(s)
of
Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base
and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a
link to the dev-list.
How about doing this?
-1 from me as a user.
In a lot of projects when I had problems, I was able to ask directly the
author(s)
of
On 5/3/07, Will Glass-Husain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the primary reason for the recommendation?
Here's Greg Stein's reasoning:
* http://tinyurl.com/mw7t6
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On 5/3/07, Ahmed Mohombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base
and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a
link to the dev-list.
How about doing this?
-1 from me as a user.
In a lot of projects when I had
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