Am 15.01.2006 um 11:47 schrieb Christian Boos:
Personally I add myself to the Author list whenever I feel I made a
significant
contribution to that file, and also when I understand the code
enough to be able
to maintain it.
The fact that you provide your e-mail address in that file
effectively enables
anyone having questions about that code to contact you directly.
While I've subscribed to that same strategy, I actually think that
listing the authors is not such a great idea. For contacting the
author, you're actually doing the community a disservice; the mailing
lists are generally a much better way to learn about the code than
direct contact to someone who may at some point have added code to
that file (imagine someone writes to daniel about the session code...
do you think they'll get a response?)
When I was still involved with the ASF, a number of projects were
removing all the author tags from their source files (with the
agreement of those authors, of course), just to lessen the impression
that the code was "owned" by individuals and not the community. I'd
be in favor of dropping the author stuff from the Trac sources, but I
understand that these things are always a bit controversial :-P
Cheers,
Chris
--
Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
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