Matej Knopp wrote:
Johan Compagner wrote:
> - shall we remove the @author tags (not forbidden but frowned upon
@apache)
Really, frowned upon? If I recall correctly, any Apache project I have
seen the sources from have them... Now that most people are more or
less maintaining them, I kind of like them.
The author tag is considered to be too difficult to manage within a
community project. At least within the ASF projets I work on, however, I
believe there are projects that still use it.
The general feeling, as I understand it, is that it opens the question
of "how much does one have to change before they deserve entry into the
author tag?". In a community driven project no contribution is more or
less important than any other. For example, a single character change
that fixes an elusive bug can be just as important as the contribution
of a new class, consider, for example, a '<' changed to a '>' in a
rarely executed conditional statement.
aarghh
no author tags? Then all my:
@author Igor Vaynberg (ivaynberg)
are removed?
How do we blame igor then?
Exactly. I think also the @author tag is too useful to be just removed.
So -1 on removing that.
SVN commit logs provide all the necessary information for tracking
individual contributions. Many projects also manage a status document
that describes significant changes in a code base.
Ross
