Hi, > Just FYI: it’s not recommended by the ASF board that @author > tags be removed.
There has been a few board discussions about it [1][2] (and elsewhere) which I've seen referenced a few times. A number of other projects have removed them [3]. [1] states "Recommend strongly that @author is avoided" which is saying something slightly different from removing existing ones I agree. I asked on list a few weeks back and there was no objection to removing them. [4] Alex's words were along the lines of it's your itch scratch it. [5] So I certainly can't see it being controversial, but if anyone feels it is it is please speak up as those changes can be easily reverted. (And just to be clear the tags in 3rd party code have been left alone and are still there.) Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_09_22.txt (see 7F) 2. http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt (see 5D) 3. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1523?jql=text%20~%20%22remove%20author%20tags%22 4. http://markmail.org/message/lfsecyl74ifkrdqz 5. http://markmail.org/message/3gt4eoxvp7qgxeqc
