Hi Everyone, Just wanted to introduce myself - I’m Chris Mattmann, I lead teams that build scientific computing systems at NASA; I teach Search Engines & Information Retrieval @ USC; and I am a member of the ASF and one of its current Directors.
/me waves To this particular issue, I agree with Bertrand; no need to remove author tags from 3rd party code (and in fact, if I were one of the devs of those codes, that wouldn’t be cool). Anyways I’m going to be hanging out here for a bit and so I’ll try and chime in if I have anything that can possibly contribute to the conversation. Thanks! Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> Reply-To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2:17 AM To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: Author tags in SDK code >Hi, > >On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> >wrote: >> ...The reason I haven't yet removed them from that particular location >>is that it >> contains (Apache licensed) 3rd party code and I'm not 100% sure if we >>can remove >> them or not.... > >I'd rather leave author tags in third-party code, unless they refer to >Flex committers. > >Flex committers are expected to see those changes, but third-party >developers won't see them, generally, so you could argue that it's not >fair to them to remove the tags without notice. > >FWIW the main reason to avoid author tags is to avoid users contacting >committers directly, we want them to get in touch with the project >instead. And many of our files have multiple authors anyway. > >-Bertrand
