On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Cory Johns <john...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:58 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 15 March 2014 01:23, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> While it's clear in the text and from the domain that the project is an
>> ASF one, the subtitles "Forge software for hosting software projects" and
>> "Brought to you by: brondsem, masterbunnyfu, rbowen, vansteenburgh" and
>> lack of links back to the ASF don't immediately give that impression.
>> 
>> That's a good point.
>> 
>> The board decided a long time ago that @author tags were deprecated in
>> code; partly because they get out of date, but mainly because the ASF
>> is a community, and code is a co-operative effort.
>> 
>> Seems to me the "Brought to you" sentence has similar problems, and
>> should be removed.
> 
> 
> Well, I should note that the "Brought to you by" line is actually
> automatically generated from the project permissions, so there is little
> chance of it getting out of date.  That said, it will be more useful as we
> move more of the Allura work (specifically, ticket activity) over from the
> old SourceForge location to the Apache hosted Allura instance, as is the
> plan.
> 

It should still be removed... It's brought to you by (1) The Allura PMC
and (2) The ASF.




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