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[jira] Created: (HARMONY-6348) Remove @author tags from code
Remove @author tags from code
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Key: HARMONY-6348
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
Project: Harmony
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Jesse Wilson
Priority: Minor
>From a 2004 email
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<40...@atg.com>
"author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
around the use of author tags
I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...
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Re: [general] Remove @author tags from code (HARMONY-6348)
Posted by Tim Ellison <t....@gmail.com>.
On 09/Oct/2009 00:25, Mark Hindess wrote:
> In message <52...@brutus>,
> "Jesse Wilson (JIRA)" writes:
>> Remove @author tags from code
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>>
>> Key: HARMONY-6348
>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
>> Project: Harmony
>> Issue Type: Task
>> Reporter: Jesse Wilson
>> Priority: Minor
>>
>>
>> From a 2004 email
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<40...@atg.com>
>> "author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
>> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
>> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
>> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
>> around the use of author tags
>>
>> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer
>> into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
>
> I'm not directly concerned about alignment with Android but I do think that
> Apache policy encourages @author tag removal so I am in favour of doing this.
>
>> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...
>
> What do you think? If there are no objections then next week I shall
> script their removal.
As I've said before, I'm +0 for removing the author tags.
I know that concerns have been raised in the past about people getting
the proper recognition for their contributions. May I suggest that if
you remove all the author tags that you collate the names and post a
list here for posterity. That should associate people's names with
Harmony archives well enough, or we can combine it with a list of the
ICLAs we have received and create a contributors file in SVN.
Regards,
Tim
[general] Remove @author tags from code (HARMONY-6348)
Posted by Mark Hindess <ma...@googlemail.com>.
In message <52...@brutus>,
"Jesse Wilson (JIRA)" writes:
>
> Remove @author tags from code
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: HARMONY-6348
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
> Project: Harmony
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Jesse Wilson
> Priority: Minor
>
>
> From a 2004 email
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<40...@atg.com>
> "author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
> around the use of author tags
>
> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer
> into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
I'm not directly concerned about alignment with Android but I do think that
Apache policy encourages @author tag removal so I am in favour of doing this.
> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...
What do you think? If there are no objections then next week I shall
script their removal.
Regards,
Mark.
[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-6348) Remove @author tags from code
Posted by "Mark Hindess (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-6348:
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Jesse, I'd like to get agreement on the dev@ list before doing this. If we decide it is the right thing to do (and I think it probably is) then I'll happily write a perl script to remove them so don't worry about creating a patch.
> Remove @author tags from code
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: HARMONY-6348
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
> Project: Harmony
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Jesse Wilson
> Assignee: Mark Hindess
> Priority: Minor
>
> From a 2004 email
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<40...@atg.com>
> "author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
> around the use of author tags
> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...
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[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-6348) Remove @author tags from code
Posted by "Mark Hindess (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Mark Hindess reassigned HARMONY-6348:
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Assignee: Mark Hindess
> Remove @author tags from code
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: HARMONY-6348
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348
> Project: Harmony
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Jesse Wilson
> Assignee: Mark Hindess
> Priority: Minor
>
> From a 2004 email
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<40...@atg.com>
> "author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
> around the use of author tags
> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer into alignment with Android, which has no author tags.
> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch...
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