I agree that these should be removed. I have seen Craig McClanahan's name in @author tags in Tomcat and other projects, so I know they exist elsewhere, but I definitely agree with you. Can we add this as a Jira issue for 1.0.1?
My personal hope is to not delay the release for any reason other than due to a mandatory requirement. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > Usually, Apache projects don't have author tags. I actually can't recall any > project that does. There's a number of good reasons for this. > > - the people who worked on a file can easily be discovered via the SCM system > - after a while others may modify the file and then the list becomes a bit > confusing > - removing individual author tags strengthens the code's affinity to the > community > > A good tag might be > > �...@author The Apache Shiro Project (shiro-dev@incubator.apache.org) > > Up to you guys but I think they should be removed. Just my 2 cents. > > > Regards, > Alan > >
