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On 10/08/2014 10:45 AM, John Griffith wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:15 AM, David Lyle <dklyle0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't see any need nor benefit from the tags. We should remove them if
>> convenient.
>>
>> David
>> On Oct 8, 2014 3:02 AM, "Duncan Thomas" <duncan.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8 October 2014 10:39, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 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 tags also make people worried about changing 'somebody else's
>>> thing', are difficult to make meaningful over time (how much of a
>>> function do you need to change to claim authorship of it) and
>>> generally give no significant benefit. While I don't currently work on
>>> Horizon, I vote for scrapping them and putting a hacking check in to
>>> keep them out.
>>>
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>> I have to echo what others are saying, IMO the @author tags are pretty
> meaningless and worse misleading.  I don't have an opinion on removing them
> but I certainly think it's ridiculous for people to add them going
> forward.  Certainly wouldn't object to them being removed as new
> contributors add/amend the files that have them.

I agree with everything that has been said.