I like it! > On Apr 26, 2024, at 9:39 AM, David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don't know if it's relevant, but I recall that back in the early 2000's >> around the time of the adoption of the ASL 2.0 (when I was contributing to >> Ant) the ASF had us stop using @author tags in code. I was not a fan at the >> time, but they had some reason I don't fully recall relating to shielding >> the contributors in the event of someone hitting a bug and then trying to >> sue folks to recover losses or something. I wonder if that logic still >> exists, and if this could be seen as related to that. It's also possible >> that this memory has severely mutated while hanging out in the back of my >> brain for 20 year :). > > The context of the name appearing as I propose in a "thank you" is > merely to thank them, not to indirectly hold them to stability/quality > measures. > > I don't think it's related. @author tags can repel a collaborative > ownership mindset on a specific bit of code. I used to @author my > code out of pride but long ago I realized those tags are a bad idea > and also kind of needless with git-blame anyway. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org >
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