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On 08/10/14 09:30, Christian Berendt wrote:
> After proposing a change to Horizon to remove the @author tags from
> the header of Python files
> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/126656/) Matthias Runge proposed
> to discuss this first on the mailing list.
> 
> Is it necessary to track the authorship of a file inside the file
> using @author tags?

Git is a lot better in attributing authorship, so for me, @author tags
are just a waste of precious disk bytes and cpu cycles.

> 
> The copyright statement itself is unchanged and intact after the
> removal of the @author tags.
> 
> The copyright statement is not addicted to the authorship of a file
> so it should be safe to remove the @author tags.
> 
> The @author tag is not used in other projects. Neutron removed all 
> @author tags some time ago and there are no @author tags e.g. in
> Nova, or Cinder. There are even local hacking checks in Nova, and
> Neutron to not use @author tags.
> 
> Christian.
> 
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