+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.

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