[LOG4J2-30] Author tags

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-alpha1
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Curt Arnold
• Created: 20/Feb/10 13:33
• Updated: 02/May/23 17:02
• Resolved: 01/May/12 04:33

Description

Logging this as a bug so that it eventually gets resolved.

From log4j-dev thread "Future development of log4j 2.0"

On 20/02/2010 12:42 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
there might be other discussions which could
lead to frustrations on several sides. I think on discussions like
having author tags and such.

On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
Author tags is a way of recognizing contributors. Recognition is a
very important aspect of oss.

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Author tags have been discouraged by the board, http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt (section D)

This statement by Dirk-Wlllem van Gulik, then president of the ASF, expands on the rationale:
http://marc.info/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=107787986409413&w=2

Don't think we need to tackle the issue until there is code someone wants to tag. I'm not planning on tagging any code that I initially develop.