11 messages in org.apache.lucene.solr-devRe: removing most @author tags| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Yonik Seeley | Jul 2, 2007 11:32 am | |
| Chris Hostetter | Jul 2, 2007 11:38 am | |
| Ryan McKinley | Jul 2, 2007 12:38 pm | |
| Mike Klaas | Jul 2, 2007 3:58 pm | |
| Ian Holsman | Jul 2, 2007 5:47 pm | |
| Bill Au | Jul 4, 2007 9:00 am | |
| Grant Ingersoll | Jul 5, 2007 12:25 pm | |
| Yonik Seeley | Jul 10, 2007 1:59 pm | |
| Chris Hostetter | Jul 10, 2007 2:12 pm | |
| Mike Klaas | Jul 10, 2007 2:14 pm | |
| Bertrand Delacretaz | Jul 11, 2007 1:04 am |
| Subject: | Re: removing most @author tags | |
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| From: | Mike Klaas (mike...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 2, 2007 3:58:04 pm | |
| List: | org.apache.lucene.solr-dev | |
On 2-Jul-07, at 11:32 AM, 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)
I've seen a better list of reasons elsewhere, but my main motivation was that it didn't feel right having my name spashed all over code that many other people are contributing to now.
Thoughts?
+0, though I think it is mostly a decision for those who have already tons of @author tags in the repo.
FWIW, our internal repository was in a similar situation: I was __author__ of 90% of the files, though certainly not the sole contributor to all of those files. I decided to strip this attribution for precisely the reasons you enumerated.
-Mike