>>> Victor wrote: > >Jeremias wrote: >> AFAIK Mark Lillywhite was never a committer, only a
>> contributor. He >> helped improve speed and memory consumption back >> during his active times. >> Unfortunately, he didn't stay long enough to get >> nominated. <snip> >BTW, what triggered this was my transfer of the last >batch of "resolved" >style issues to the web page, which included a >provision to remove personal >attributions within source code. I want to make sure >that we don't just >erase the memory of the people at the same time. >Victor Mote Victor, Rather than burden the team page with the name of each person who has contributed source code to FOP, I think it would be better for us to continue to keep their names in the source file, albeit outside of the @author attribute tag. I had understood the vote as for us not using the @author attribution for source files--in short, that our FOP JavaDoc won't be listing individual committer and contributor names. That's a clean design for our JavaDocs, which I agreed with. But even though the vote was probably to remove *all* author comments, @author or not (which is also fine, after all, the committers themselves rarely put their names on any files), it was not "to remove all author credits *and* add them to the team page." Indeed, I don't know of any other Apache group that maintains a "former contributors" section instead of comments in the source files--and I'm reluctant for us to open that can of worms--especially as this will soon grow to dozens of names (look at the AWT classes, for example). Simple non-JavaDoc comments near the top of a source file that indicate its original contributor are not that bad, actually the right thing to do. (It's also what jfor apparently does--see the Team section at: http://www.jfor.org/) In those cases where we're concerned about the contributor's work getting "erased", then this is probably the cleaner route. Glen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
