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Do you let employees leave their names in code on your web site?
What's your company or agency's policy on allowing employees to leave their name/developer comments that identify themselves in code they write for you?
Specifically on public facing applications and web sites, and I'm not talking about on a credits page, I mean on inline comments and/or script/page header comments. Is it OK for your employees to leave their names in your code?
For me, than answer is NO. ;)
- younata 16y agowhy not? It won't affect the end product at all (especially if it's a comment), why not let them have their fun?
- dstik 16y agoThis has been prohibited at every place I've ever worked.
- winternett 16y agoI don't because a lot of times they have used code written by other people. It opens you to suits for stolen producer credits etc... People are shifty. I think I'd be pretty upset if I found someone had slapped their name on my code and then put it on a web site like CNN. It looks like CNN doesn't allow any comments with names at all, I looked through their source files... I'd like to find out if there's a Federal policy on names in code for Government websites....
- madhouse 16y agoMost of the code the company I work for produces is open source, which naturally has comments, along with our public git repository, with all the developers' names and whatnot. Though, for a company that does not do open source, the answer in most cases is probably a big no.