Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 81443 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2005 14:18:55 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Oct 2005 14:18:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 18316 invoked by uid 500); 2 Oct 2005 14:18:44 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 18232 invoked by uid 500); 2 Oct 2005 14:18:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact harmony-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 18220 invoked by uid 99); 2 Oct 2005 14:18:43 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:18:43 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: unknown (asf.osuosl.org: error in processing during lookup of archie@dellroad.org) Received: from [216.239.128.26] (HELO smtp.omnis.com) (216.239.128.26) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:18:48 -0700 Received: from [10.2.2.20] (24-196-9-200.dhcp.leds.al.charter.com [24.196.9.200]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EFE14077F5 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 07:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <433FEC2B.7080308@dellroad.org> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:18:19 -0500 From: Archie Cobbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041129 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [project policy] Author credit and attribution References: <12ED61E0-1039-42DF-B353-C2865A440797@apache.org> In-Reply-To: <12ED61E0-1039-42DF-B353-C2865A440797@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > The Apache Board has recommended that projects not employ author tags > in their source code. The main motivation for this recommendation is > to remove "territorial ownership" from code. My vote is to not have @author tags. The SVN log should be the definitive source of authorship information. Besides, who's the @author when 15 different people have committed changes? They quickly become out of date. Just my (one) opinion of course. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com