Re: Removing author information from source files

Posted by Yoav Shapira-5 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Removing-author-information-from-source-files-tp173071p173079.html

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
>
>
>