Will Coleda wrote:
In general, I'm not a fan of the AUTHOR sections. As you've noted, they can get stale or out of sync pretty easily. A lot of this information is captured in the version control metadata, CREDITS, and RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES, and if someone's looking to get a question answered, we should probably be steering them towards our community interfaces rather than towards individuals. (Esp. since those individuals may have moved on from the project.)
Yes, general policy is to keep credit information in a central location, instead of scattered through multiple files (where no one will find it anyway). I don't think that's mentioned in the coding standards PDD, but it probably should be.
Of course, individual languages may have their own customs for recording credits (since they may ultimately live outside the Parrot repository).
Allison
