@orieux I understand your concern.  Three comments: a) Your name is associated with the paper cited in the docstring, and that will always accompany the code. b) No one else in the project gets to have their names included in files (this might have happened right in the beginning, but we don't do it any longer.  If we allow it here, we'll have to also do it everywhere else, and for that I don't see the benefit--this is a group effort, after all! c) In a few years from now, that code may have been rewritten in its entirety, and by that stage a person can hardly claim authorship.  I'm saying this out of experience: a lot of my code in scikit-image has been improved to the point where none of the original remains!  The contributors list could still credit me for being the initial implementer of that feature, though, if I so wished.

Another big picture perspective is that I do not want people to claim individual authorship over single pieces of code / algorithms in scikit-image, so that all developers on the team are equally willing to work on and engage with other's code.

The time return on my scikit-image investment has probably been at least 10-fold--I hope you experience the same very soon!