On 10/3/06, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Igor Vaynberg wrote: > depends on what you are looking to use it for i guess. > > the way we've been using @author is to tag people who design/change > behavior > in a class - not by how important the change was. Yes, that is always the intention, but experience has shown that it is not interpreted that way. An @author tag makes one contributor look more important than another. This perception has nothing to do with the intent. > so that if someone has a question about a certain class you can look at the > list of authors and go bug those people on the hows and whys. An ASF project is owned by the community, not by any individual author. All committers have equal responsibility for code. I realise you are not intending to say anything different in your above statement, but again, it is a perception thing.
well, when we were thinking about entering the incubator we complained that jars with -incubating are perceived to be at most beta quality and not ready for production use. we were told that that perception is wrong and we should work on educating people and changing their perception :) im not opposed to removing @author tags because i more or less feel comfortable with the entire codebase, but i think we will only be losing and not gaining. -Igor
