7197491: update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 jdk repository

[Darryl Mocek]

Alan,

     I was responsible for updating the copyrights for JavaME.  I used a 
Perl script to update the copyright year in the source files.  I can 
point you to the relevant information if you like. There were challenges 
as there are various copyrights in the source files (Oracle, Oracle + 
3rd-party, 3rd party only, and no copyright), all with different 
formats, and even within the Oracle copyrights, people used subtle 
differences which caused difficulties.  I ended updating all copyrights 
to a few formats and adding a post-commit script which scrubbed the 
copyright and notified the committer if the copyright wasn't in the 
correct format and didn't have an ending year (or sole year) which is 
the current year.

There are plenty of options here:

- Do nothing (policy)
- Pre-commit script which changes the year automatically
- Pre-commit script which rejects commit with wrong year
- Post-commit script which flags a bad copyright, but accepts commit
- Others

Updating the copyright year as you commit is a good habit to get into, 
but ultimately there are files which never get touched which will need 
processing to update the year.  I think doing this at the end/beginning 
of the year is good, we just need to make sure we get the copyright 
correct when processing.

Darryl

On 11/02/2012 05:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> Now for some noise.
>
> The copyright date in the source files needs updating. The man behind 
> the curtain is Steve Sides from the Quality and Release Engineering 
> team in Oracle. Jon pushed, on Steve's behalf, the update to the 
> langtools files recently [1], and Mikael updated hotspot [2]. The 
> elephant is the jdk repository as there are 3000+ files that need 
> their headers updated.
>
> To keep the disruption to a minimum I propose that we do the jdk 
> repository in two steps: non-client area now to jdk8/tl, and then the 
> client-area later in jdk8/awt once the changes get there. I use the 
> term "client-area" loosely to mean the source files for awt, swing, 
> font, java2d, etc. (and I appreciate that there is also a jdk8/2d 
> forest in use). To that end here is the proposed patch for today:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/7197491/copyright.patch
>
> This patch updates the headers on 2370 files. I don't propose to 
> publish a webrev as it's just too big.
>
> This patch was created with:
>
> cd jdk
> sh ../make/scripts/update_copyright_year.sh 2011
> sh ../make/scripts/update_copyright_year.sh 2012
> hg revert --no-backup `cat clientdirs.list`
> hg diff -g > copyright.patch
>
> where clientdirs.list is most of the directories corresponding to the 
> client area.
>
> Note that I ran the update_copyright_year.sh script twice, once for 
> 2011 and then a second time for 2012. The reason for this is that 
> there are several hundred files in the jdk repository that were last 
> updated in 2011 but have an older date on the header.
>
> Reviewer welcome but I should say that I don't have cycles to spend on 
> this. Also the patch has an a very short shelf life.
>
> Finally, I think that there needs to be wider discussion as to how to 
> keep the headers from falling behind too much. Some people do update 
> the headers when editing files, some people (including myself) do not. 
> It seems to me that it should be done regularly anyway, perhaps every 
> few months or at integration time every so often.
>
> -Alan.
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/9d47f4850714
> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/b9a9ed0f8eeb