Checkstyle: @author tags are deprecated

src/conf/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml

@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@
       <property name="scope" value="protected" />
     </module>
 
-
     <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions. -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
     <module name="LocalFinalVariableName" />
@@ -113,12 +112,10 @@
     <module name="RedundantImport" />
     <module name="UnusedImports" />
 
-
     <!-- Checks for Size Violations. -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
     <module name="ParameterNumber" />
 
-
     <!-- Checks for whitespace -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
     <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad" />
@@ -129,13 +126,11 @@
     </module>
     <module name="WhitespaceAround" />
 
-
     <!-- Modifier Checks -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
     <module name="ModifierOrder" />
     <!-- module name="RedundantModifier"/ -->
 
-
     <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
     <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks" />
@@ -145,7 +140,6 @@
 
     <module name="NeedBraces" />
 
-
     <!-- Checks for common coding problems -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
     <!-- module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/ -->
@@ -167,7 +161,6 @@
     <module name="InterfaceIsType" />
     <module name="VisibilityModifier" />
 
-
     <!-- Miscellaneous other checks. -->
     <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
     <module name="ArrayTypeStyle" />
@@ -182,5 +175,11 @@
     </module>
 
   </module>
-
+  <!-- @author tags are deprecated -->
+  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+    <property name="format" value="^\s+\*\s+@author\s" />
+    <property name="message" value="Deprecated @author tag" />
+    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java" />
+    <property name="severity" value="warning" />
+  </module>
 </module>