Re: Removing author information from source files

Posted by David E Jones-2 on
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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