Re: No ICLA for some authors in Sun's JAXP 1.3 donation
Geir Magnusson Jr. <[email protected]>
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On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote: > > > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> >> On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> What I would do is just remove the names from the code, and in the >>>> commit message, note that you are removing as they are internal Sun >>>> committers, that their work was done at Sun before the contribution >>>> was >>>> made, and you are removing them to eliminate the confusion that >>>> arose. >>> >>> >>> I would prefer that my @author stay intact. >>> I have just sent in an ICLA. >> >> >> It doesn't matter for this case - the existence of the author tags >> reflects work that happened before the software was donated to >> Apache, so from a legal standpoint, it's moot. I know this may come >> across as harsh, and I don't mean to be - the use of author tags is a >> community issue (and a generally contentious one!) and one that the >> ASF board has recommended against. However it is up to the >> individual project to decide how author tags are handled. >> > My opinion would be not to remove the author tag. Author tag shows the > contribution of a person and is a good contact point in case any one > needs to clarifiy certain behavior. Actually it would be good if Jeff > can be made a committer as part of the code grant because of his > contribution in so many files. His becoming committer would also be > good for the ASF project and the community. That's entirely up to the community :) geir > > - Neeraj > >> Personally, I'd find it utterly baffling to find an author tag in the >> file with no related commit by that author. An alternative to just >> erasing them, in order to preserve that information in some way, >> would be to move it to the NOTICE file for the project? >> >> An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a >> committer. you do have the paperwork done :) >> > > > -- Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 [email protected]