B. W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Are you serious? Quite frankly, I find that behavior reprehensible--It
> reeks of strange fraternity initiation rites.
>
> If I write, test, and commit a piece of good solid code and someone
> else goes pissing in it just to leave their scent and to show me that
> I don't 'own' the code, I am *not* going to be amused by it.
> Ownership of code shouldn't be taught by this kind of negative
> reinforcement, and I would suggest that the quality of the code
> suffers as a result.
So you're saying it's ok for you to brag to everybody that you wrote the
'good' code, that sounds pretty lame. How would you show someone that
the code they _donated_ isn't theirs, its the communities?
>
>
>>One thing that *could* be a problem is that @author tags can give the
>>impression that a cretain piece of code is "maintained" by the authors,
>>or that they are responsible for it, and this can reduce peer review.
>
>
> Yes. Also, I think that placing author credit in every file
> encourages territoriality and individualism while discouraging people
> from thinking and acting as a team.
But showing people that the 'good' code you wrote isnt?
Sounds somewhat hypocritical...
Shane
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