atom feed11 messages in org.apache.lucene.solr-devremoving most @author tags
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Yonik SeeleyJul 2, 2007 11:32 am 
Chris HostetterJul 2, 2007 11:38 am 
Ryan McKinleyJul 2, 2007 12:38 pm 
Mike KlaasJul 2, 2007 3:58 pm 
Ian HolsmanJul 2, 2007 5:47 pm 
Bill AuJul 4, 2007 9:00 am 
Grant IngersollJul 5, 2007 12:25 pm 
Yonik SeeleyJul 10, 2007 1:59 pm 
Chris HostetterJul 10, 2007 2:12 pm 
Mike KlaasJul 10, 2007 2:14 pm 
Bertrand DelacretazJul 11, 2007 1:04 am 
Subject:removing most @author tags
From:Yonik Seeley (yon@apache.org)
Date:Jul 2, 2007 11:32:22 am
List:org.apache.lucene.solr-dev

In the spirit of shared ownership, what do people think of getting rid of @author tags (for committers or other dev people that consent?). Other apache projects have done so, for a host of reasons.

- some people don't use author tags, hence credit is uneven - author tags tend to only credit the original author, and not everyone that works on the code after (or does code reviews, lends ideas, etc, etc) - we have CHANGES.txt to generally credit people (and it prob does a better job)

I've seen a better list of reasons elsewhere, but my main motivation was that it didn't feel right having my name spashed all over code that many other people are contributing to now.

Thoughts?

-Yonik

seeleyy@njseeleyyhpxp /cygdrive/f/code/solr $ find . -name \*.java | xargs grep '@author'| grep -i yonik | wc 142 567 10451

seeleyy@njseeleyyhpxp /cygdrive/f/code/solr $ find . -name \*.java | xargs grep '@author'| grep -i klaas | wc 1 4 74

seeleyy@njseeleyyhpxp /cygdrive/f/code/solr $ find . -name \*.java | xargs grep '@author'| grep -i hoss | wc 2 8 152

seeleyy@njseeleyyhpxp /cygdrive/f/code/solr $ find . -name \*.java | xargs grep '@author'| grep -i ryan | wc 58 232 4960