[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-30) Author tags

["Christian Grobmeier (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christian Grobmeier commented on LOG4J2-30:
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Thank you Ralph.

I am +1 on removing all author tags from the code. There is a team list which is imho enough. The question "who wrote the class" is not easy to answer. Classes become refactored. Who wrote it then, when it just contains the old name? Does one deserve an author tag when he fixed two typos? And so on. For me author tags are ego driven and in my whole career I never had a need for them.

Instead, a contributors list on the website is fine. In addition there is of course need to name Ralph as the innovator of log4j2. A good place is the projects history. Without his super powers we would not discuss this now.

Speaking personally, I really don't need author tags telling peopl e what I did in code. I mean there is no place what I did for this project OUTSIDE the code, and OSS does also live of blogposts, print articles, cvonference speakers and so on.

Ralph removed the tags in 2010, I am closing this issue. If we need more discussions, please lets do that on the mailing list (and reopen this one, if needed)
                
> Author tags
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>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-30
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-30
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Curt Arnold
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Logging this as a bug so that it eventually gets resolved.
> From log4j-dev thread "Future development of log4j 2.0"
> On 20/02/2010 12:42 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
> there might be other discussions which could
> lead to frustrations on several sides. I think on discussions like
> having author tags and such.
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
> Author tags is a way of recognizing contributors. Recognition is a
> very important aspect of oss.
> ---
> Author tags have been discouraged by the board, http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt (section D)
> This statement by Dirk-Wlllem van Gulik, then president of the ASF, expands on the rationale: 
> http://marc.info/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=107787986409413&w=2
> Don't think we need to tackle the issue until there is code someone wants to tag.  I'm not planning on tagging any code that I initially develop.

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