I didn't propose anything - I simply stated that the information is
redundant.
Having all of that author information in the pom file is unnecessary, in
my opinion. If I'm researching source code, all I care about is what was
changed and why. The author of the change is inconsequential. If I
really need to know who wrote the change I can follow the path from the
commit log to the Jira issue to the contributor of the patch.
In OFBiz we eliminated all author information from the source code and
no one has missed it. We don't keep it on the website either.
-Adrian
On 4/5/2011 8:41 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Adrian Crum
<adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote:
The author information in the pom file is also redundant - it already exists
in greater detail in the commit logs.
1.) Authors aren't necessarily committers. That's what the
"contributors" section in the POM is for.
2.) Commit logs contain the authors user ID. Nothing less, but also
nothing more. The POM allows to specify full name, email, timezone
information, and the like.
3.) You aren't actually proposing that we grep the complete Apache
commit logs in order to create a page like
http://commons.apache.org/discovery/team-list.html
dynamically, are you? Considering the multitude of projects and
the frequency of running "mvn site", that would most likely kill the
SVN server.
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