7197491: update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 jdk repository (original) (raw)

Lana Steuck lana.steuck at oracle.com
Fri Nov 2 16🔞51 UTC 2012

Hi Alan,

Thank you for doing this. I see that Kumar volunteered to be your reviewer. So are you pushing the change today?

BTW: Would it make sense to integrate jdk8/tl -> master next week too? I thought about this too and yes, this would make everybody's life easier. I can start TL PIT as soon as you push the change (please let me know when you push it).

Thank you, Lana

On 11/02/2012 09:07 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 02/11/2012 13:44, Chris Hegarty wrote:

I'm not sure what you are looking for here, but I skimmed quickly up and down the patch stopping occasionally, and the updated headers look ok.

On the general issue, is there a reason what on the 1st of January ever source file cannot have its year range updated to that year. Then just forget about it until the next year? Anyway, I'm ok with this as is for now. -Chris. I was just looking for a reviewer so that I could push this change and get it out of the way. Steve has the engine running in the get away car :-) I think there needs to be wider discussion as to how to deal with the copyright dates. It regularly comes up during code reviews because some reviewers insist on the dates being updated. I don't know if a yearly on Jan 1 will work as there will be outgoing changes in the team forests that will be missed. Also I'm not sure we want to leave it as long as a year anyway. Every few months or periodically at integration time feels right to me although I don't have a strong opinion on this topic. -Alan

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