Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

["Peter B. West" <pb...@powerup.com.au>]

gmazza@apache.org wrote:
> gmazza      2004/01/19 15:56:50
> 
>   Modified:    src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml
>   Log:
>   Updated team page--moved Finn, Andreas, Chris and Peter to active status;
>   set Victor and Keiron to inactive status, removed "former contributor"
>   section in favor of going back to giving credit within source files.

I'm sorry that I didn't contribute to the discussion on this, but I 
think that Mark Lillywhite deserves an honourable mention on the web 
site.  He saved Fop for many users by introducing page-sequence formatting.

Peter
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Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs team.xml

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

I agree. Over at Jakarta (especially Commons) this discussion was
renewed lately. Bottomline is that it's better (and safer for the ASF)
to remove author tags from the sources and credit contributors in
changes files, CVS messages and on websites. All source files should
probably have one author tag pointing to the developer mailing list of
the respective project.

Please see:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=572799

That said I'm in favor for:
- removing all author tags (and other such markings) in the source files
- adding a "FOP Dev Team" author tag to every source file.
- adding each name that is removed somewhere to a list of contributors 
(hopefully and if possible with a short note about the area of their
contribution).
- adding contributor names on demand (for those who only have their
names in CVS messages)

On 20.01.2004 18:37:51 J.Pietschmann wrote:
> gmazza@apache.org wrote:
> >   removed "former contributor"
> >   section in favor of going back to giving credit within source files.
> 
> Uh, oh. That's not supposed to be a change anybody can make
> on a whim.


Jeremias Maerki