Re: author of changes.xml

2014-07-01 Thread sebb
On 1 July 2014 12:50, Gary Gregory wrote: > The tag should probably fall under the same treatment as @author > tags: discouraged. Alternatively, for this case it would make sense to use dev@commons / Apache Commons developers. > Gary > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bernd Eckenfels > wro

Re: author of changes.xml

2014-07-01 Thread Gary Gregory
The tag should probably fall under the same treatment as @author tags: discouraged. Gary On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hello, > > in [VFS] (but I guess the question is broader) I see an tag in > the changes.xml. However most of the recent changes (as well as the >

Re: author of changes.xml

2014-06-30 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi Bernd, from my PoV you can remove the tag for the reasons you mentioned. We attribute authorship via the developers tag in pom.xml. So there is no need for individual documents to contain a reference to the author who initially created the document. To be sure, I've put Ralph in cc, so he can o

author of changes.xml

2014-06-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, in [VFS] (but I guess the question is broader) I see an tag in the changes.xml. However most of the recent changes (as well as the entries) to that file are from different persons. What is the best way here? I feel uneasy to write a text which is attributed (possibly unknowingly) to some o