Re: Can I remove all the @author tags?

Attila Szegedi <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jul 2013 12:07:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.devel
Message-ID <CAMYVXdsML00CUnDwMQY1_eLV90dPHTVDaUDSvh48kZyhPkog1w@mail.gmail.com>
Feel free to, Git tracks authorship better anyway. I consider them an
archaic feature…


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can I? This is a question maintly to Attila and Jonathan, because
> pretty much all of these tagas are from them.
>
> Those tags are very often just @originalAuthor-s at this point, and
> that will just become more so. They aren't usable anyomre for finding
> the person who should be contacted if there's a problem. So they are
> just disinformation AFAIS. (If you just want to be credited for your
> work (which is rarely the case if someone looks at his code from 10
> years earlier ;-) ), Who We Are and your CV is a better place.)
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>

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