Thanks Justin, it’s not controversial it’s just not doctrine and stating that the board recommends it and then citing minutes from over a decade ago don’t make it any more recommended than anything else.
The past 2 boards that I’ve been on have never brought it up; and since I have been participating actively at the foundation (2005-*) it’s never been a board level issue. It’s a community issue. No one in Flex has objected, so please proceed, however I will state again it’s not a board level issue. Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> Reply-To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 1:31 AM To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: Author tags in SDK code >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_0 >9_22.txt (see 7F) >2. >http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_0 >2_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
