[Owasp-orizon] Source file credits naming convention..

Paolo Perego thesp0nge at owasp.org
Tue Feb 24 12:33:18 EST 2009


Hi List, we're growing and I'm really happy about it.
Before going further I want to discuss you a naming convention to be
used to give proper credits for people working over orizon sources...

I propose to use linux sources as example. They write on top of each
file the following:

---
filename - oneline description
(C) year the first one working on that file

GPL license
---


We can use the same approach with just a minor tweak. We'll give the
first credit to the first one working on that file, but we'll write a
Changelog in the comment.
At the end of the preamble block, we need to write javadoc @author
keyword, so each file author if more than one will
have a single @author keyword at the end of the credit block.

eg.

/**
PhpCollector - the collector for PHP
(C) 2008-2009 thesp0nge

GPL v3 license

Changelog:
20090212: major cleanup and implementation of foo() and bar(), Stephen
<step at email>

@author thesp0nge
@author stephen
@author someother
*/

What do you think about it? Do you think is a fair way to manage credits?
If not, please let me now your opinion :)

Paolo
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