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

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Nov 2 16:22:09 UTC 2012

On 02/11/2012 16:08, Phil Race wrote:

Looks fine to me although I don't know how I can easily (ie not tediously) verify that a particular file is correctly updated to 2011 vs 2012 .. Thanks, although I've already pushed it, just to get it out of the way. I looked at a few samples, as I think Chris and Kumar did, to make sure that they were okay.

I don't think doing the updates at integration time is particularly desirable as it would suggest that a file is updated once by the engineer who is making the change and then again by the integration process, doubling (approx) the number of changesets. I'm fine with once or twice a year. For infrequently touched files it will maybe amount to the 2X changesets I suppose but still .. I think Steve should start a thread on jdk8-dev about this, I don't think it matters too much except that doing it every few months feels, perhaps at integration time, about right to me. The other approach is of course to insist that people change the header when changing files but arguably that just adds noise to patches.

When you get around to the client changes will you be doing the closed sources too ? I'm just helping out today, I hadn't planned on running with this.

-Alan.

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