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

[Steve Sides]

On 11/2/2012 5:46 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.
It should be noted the every change is only a change to the copyright 
update line to either 2011 or 2012, no other changes.
>
> 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.
The proprosal is to do this "peridocially" by re after this initial 
set...it just hasn't been done fore quite a while.
Also, part of the EFP is "RE integrate year fix script into promotion 
build process". This should keep subsequent changesets substantially 
smaller.
-steve

>
> -Alan.
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/9d47f4850714
> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/b9a9ed0f8eeb