Removing author information from source files

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Hi all,

what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
in rev. 453960)?

Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
(clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?

Jacopo

[BJ Freeman]

The ideas was so someone could contact who did that code and ask questions.
I believe this is now in the SVN history so that is unnecessary in code.


Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 10/7/2006 9:48 AM:

> Hi all,
>
> what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
> in rev. 453960)?
>
> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
> (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
> from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
> for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>
> Jacopo
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).

Jacques

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>

> Hi all,
>
> what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
> in rev. 453960)?
>
> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
> (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
> from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
> for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>
> Jacopo

[David E Jones-2]

Yes, I think it would be good to toss these.

There are various problems with them too. I've noticed a lot of  
author listings that are incorrect because a header was just copied  
from another file and the author list never changed and such.

-David


On Oct 7, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> what about removing the author information from source files (like  
> I did in rev. 453960)?
>
> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the  
> ASF (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be  
> derived from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned  
> this practice for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>
> Jacopo

[Yoav Shapira-5]

Hi,
Most projects at the ASF decided a year or two ago to discard @author
tags, either to just stop using them, or even to go into the files and
remove the existing ones.  You've covered some of the reasons why this
is a decent idea, and there's another good reason which is legal
coverage.  I don't have time to go into details, but anyways @author
tags are not essential to remove: OFBiz can keep them in, take them
out, whatever you want: it's up to the project, there's no ASF
mandate.

Yoav

On 10/7/06, David E Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Yes, I think it would be good to toss these.
>
> There are various problems with them too. I've noticed a lot of
> author listings that are incorrect because a header was just copied
> from another file and the author list never changed and such.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > what about removing the author information from source files (like
> > I did in rev. 453960)?
> >
> > Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the
> > ASF (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be
> > derived from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned
> > this practice for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
> >
> > Jacopo
>
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Jacques,

that's a good idea: I'm going to clean the "content" component (the
manufacturing one is already done).

Jacopo

PS: while we are doing this task it is a good idea to also remove the
@version, @since, $Rev tags


Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
>> in rev. 453960)?
>>
>> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
>> (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
>> from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
>> for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>>
>> Jacopo

[Jacques Le Roux]

After correcting my mistake about DemoProductCategoriesI18nData.xml (thanks again David) I will go for POS module.

Jacques

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Removing author information from source files

> Jacques,
>
> that's a good idea: I'm going to clean the "content" component (the
> manufacturing one is already done).
>
> Jacopo
>
> PS: while we are doing this task it is a good idea to also remove the
> @version, @since, $Rev tags
>
>
> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> > Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> > From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
> >> in rev. 453960)?
> >>
> >> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
> >> (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
> >> from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
> >> for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
> >>
> >> Jacopo

[Jacopo Cappellato]

That's great! In the mentime I've completed all the other application
components.
I'll start my attack to the framework ones starting from the components
in the end (workflow, widget, webtools etc...)

Jacopo

Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> After correcting my mistake about DemoProductCategoriesI18nData.xml (thanks again David) I will go for POS module.
>
> Jacques
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Removing author information from source files
>
>
>> Jacques,
>>
>> that's a good idea: I'm going to clean the "content" component (the
>> manufacturing one is already done).
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>> PS: while we are doing this task it is a good idea to also remove the
>> @version, @since, $Rev tags
>>
>>
>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>> Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> what about removing the author information from source files (like I did
>>>> in rev. 453960)?
>>>>
>>>> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the ASF
>>>> (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be derived
>>>> from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned this practice
>>>> for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>>>>
>>>> Jacopo

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Jacques, all,

ok, I've removed the author information from all the files of the
framework and application folders (including pos).

One more little step forward for Apache graduation is done.

Jacopo


Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> That's great! In the mentime I've completed all the other application
> components.
> I'll start my attack to the framework ones starting from the components
> in the end (workflow, widget, webtools etc...)
>
> Jacopo
>
> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> After correcting my mistake about DemoProductCategoriesI18nData.xml
>> (thanks again David) I will go for POS module.
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>> To: <[hidden email]>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: Removing author information from source files
>>
>>
>>> Jacques,
>>>
>>> that's a good idea: I'm going to clean the "content" component (the
>>> manufacturing one is already done).
>>>
>>> Jacopo
>>>
>>> PS: while we are doing this task it is a good idea to also remove the
>>> @version, @since, $Rev tags
>>>
>>>
>>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>> Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done
>>>> pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).
>>>>
>>>> Jacques
>>>>
>>>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> what about removing the author information from source files (like
>>>>> I did in rev. 453960)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the
>>>>> ASF (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be
>>>>> derived from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned
>>>>> this practice for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacopo

[Jacques Le Roux]

Woow, I did not have even the time to look at it.
I did some gardening, bad for my back but good for my head, don't know for ASF (Do we like gardening ? ;o)

I may help on the copyright date problem.

Thanks Jacopo !


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Removing author information from source files

> Jacques, all,
>
> ok, I've removed the author information from all the files of the
> framework and application folders (including pos).
>
> One more little step forward for Apache graduation is done.
>
> Jacopo
>
>
> Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
> > That's great! In the mentime I've completed all the other application
> > components.
> > I'll start my attack to the framework ones starting from the components
> > in the end (workflow, widget, webtools etc...)
> >
> > Jacopo
> >
> > Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> >> After correcting my mistake about DemoProductCategoriesI18nData.xml
> >> (thanks again David) I will go for POS module.
> >>
> >> Jacques
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> >> To: <[hidden email]>
> >> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:59 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Removing author information from source files
> >>
> >>
> >>> Jacques,
> >>>
> >>> that's a good idea: I'm going to clean the "content" component (the
> >>> manufacturing one is already done).
> >>>
> >>> Jacopo
> >>>
> >>> PS: while we are doing this task it is a good idea to also remove the
> >>> @version, @since, $Rev tags
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> >>>> Yes, I agree. If we share the task by components it may be done
> >>>> pretty quickly (maybe even quasi-automatically).
> >>>>
> >>>> Jacques
> >>>>
> >>>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> what about removing the author information from source files (like
> >>>>> I did in rev. 453960)?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Keeping this information in the source files is discouraged by the
> >>>>> ASF (clearer information about the contributors of a file can be
> >>>>> derived from the commit logs) and we have already mostly abandoned
> >>>>> this practice for new files... what about cleaning the old ones?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Jacopo