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On 08/10/2014 10:39, "Ihar Hrachyshka" <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:


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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.

+1 

>
>> 
>> 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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