<div dir="ltr"><div>Nova has a hacking check for this (N315): <a href="https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/hacking/checks.py#n220">https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/hacking/checks.py#n220</a><br><br></div>Based on the general sentiment around the issue, maybe other projects should consider enforcing this similarly.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Monty Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mordred@inaugust.com" target="_blank">mordred@inaugust.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 10/08/2014 10:45 AM, John Griffith wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:15 AM, David Lyle <<a href="mailto:dklyle0@gmail.com">dklyle0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I don't see any need nor benefit from the tags. We should remove them if<br>
>> convenient.<br>
>><br>
>> David<br>
>> On Oct 8, 2014 3:02 AM, "Duncan Thomas" <<a href="mailto:duncan.thomas@gmail.com">duncan.thomas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On 8 October 2014 10:39, Ihar Hrachyshka <<a href="mailto:ihrachys@redhat.com">ihrachys@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> On 08/10/14 09:30, Christian Berendt wrote:<br>
>>>>> After proposing a change to Horizon to remove the @author tags from<br>
>>>>> the header of Python files<br>
>>>>> (<a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126656/" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126656/</a>) Matthias Runge proposed<br>
>>>>> to discuss this first on the mailing list.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Is it necessary to track the authorship of a file inside the file<br>
>>>>> using @author tags?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Git is a lot better in attributing authorship, so for me, @author tags<br>
>>>> are just a waste of precious disk bytes and cpu cycles.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The tags also make people worried about changing 'somebody else's<br>
>>> thing', are difficult to make meaningful over time (how much of a<br>
>>> function do you need to change to claim authorship of it) and<br>
>>> generally give no significant benefit. While I don't currently work on<br>
>>> Horizon, I vote for scrapping them and putting a hacking check in to<br>
>>> keep them out.<br>
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>> I have to echo what others are saying, IMO the @author tags are pretty<br>
> meaningless and worse misleading. I don't have an opinion on removing them<br>
> but I certainly think it's ridiculous for people to add them going<br>
> forward. Certainly wouldn't object to them being removed as new<br>
> contributors add/amend the files that have them.<br>
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</div></div>I agree with everything that has been said.<br>
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