Interesting thread on..uthor tags in community projects.
I included a couple of the more interesting snippets below, but left out
some of the legal arguments.
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:09:22 -0800 (PST)
From: David Graham <grahamdavid198..ahoo.com>
Subject:..uthor tags in Struts code
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The..uthor javadoc tag topic has been discussed on commons-dev recently
and Ted brought it up in a recent struts-dev thread so I thought it might
be nice to get the Struts community's opinion on it. Some arguments
against..uthor tags by Greg Stein can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/yrlhu
I'm not too concerned about the legal issues because I don't think there
are any. I think it's a good idea to remove all of the tags rather than
each person removing their own so that the remaining tags don't
misrepresent who did most of the work (kind of an all or nothing deal).
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:27:45 -0800
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <craigmc..pache.org>
Subject: Re:..uthor tags in Struts code
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Quoting Paul Sundling <tomcatlis..kz.net>:
> 1. For non-committers, it gives us warm fuzzies. It's like a little
> flag that says I actually made my contribution to open source, like more
> of us out there should. You can't go in CVS and see that people like me
> added a patch, unless a committer actually takes time to actually
> mention it without an author tag.
That particular practice is something we focus on pretty heavily on Struts
-- the only times I've ever seen someone forget this was an oversight or a too-quick press of the submit button; in those cases, the standard practice has been to note the contribution in a message to STRUTS-DEV (where the CVS messages also go) in order to ensure that credit is logged someplace historical.If there were some template text, > like "Based on a patch contributed to ASF by johndo..omain.com related > to bugzilla # ....." in the CVS log I think that would be good enough. >
The CVS commit template already includes "Submitted by:" for Struts, to nag us committers into remembering to give credit where credit is due.
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