-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/14 09:30, Christian Berendt wrote: > After proposing a change to Horizon to remove the @author tags from > the header of Python files > (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126656/) Matthias Runge proposed > to discuss this first on the mailing list. > > Is it necessary to track the authorship of a file inside the file > using @author tags?
Git is a lot better in attributing authorship, so for me, @author tags are just a waste of precious disk bytes and cpu cycles. > > The copyright statement itself is unchanged and intact after the > removal of the @author tags. > > The copyright statement is not addicted to the authorship of a file > so it should be safe to remove the @author tags. > > The @author tag is not used in other projects. Neutron removed all > @author tags some time ago and there are no @author tags e.g. in > Nova, or Cinder. There are even local hacking checks in Nova, and > Neutron to not use @author tags. > > Christian. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUNQZZAAoJEC5aWaUY1u572BEIALXeJDUKp7LLp7Vsw7n3LkhQ kDjUf/wm0ySNQ8+VLGzaI0BTGhCN4QlrCfdiRXjwI1AYMMcf7DLKGA9pah1hcoEq xn2uiFce3qGp6KVIbKldVLBfzYTQlDnGBb/uGdrIT3WOyYC6Cj1LNte1AcrNgFLc x/eDmsQUWp3cvGJReiEW7Gqtmo0DQHswwD70D4NS//nZKSIildeM5ucWpHgtI9k1 PsRNZDHr2Pyg2JRD0eEakW0nt5VICa1vOoCmsOCbVjluwU3XBXgsejHM2fbSeSNp HnppdogRuZ+30xg9Ij+WbuX5FwMIRc+UTNVektqSkQa582/DcMpMTi/ySLmTH6U= =33KY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
