Automate copyright year?

[Kevin Rushforth]

 > Then we might decide not to request a change in review if only the 
copyright is not updated?

Yes, this is a good idea. I don't generally flag this in my reviews, for 
example. The exceptions would be: 1) if a new file springs to life with 
the wrong initial copyright year; 2) if an incorrect update was made to 
a copyright year.

-- Kevin


On 4/28/2020 4:18 AM, Jeanette Winzenburg wrote:
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> Okay, thanks for the info :)
>
> Then we might decide not to request a change in review if only the 
> copyright is not updated? If the second reviewers does it after the 
> first already approved, the first has to re-approve - additional 
> bureaucratic work and might lead to a bit of time lag across 
> continents. Not such a big deal, but if it doesn't really matter ..
>
> -- Jeanette
>
> Zitat von Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>:
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>> Not that I know of. FWIW, I'm not too bothered by this, since I run a 
>> script 2-3 times a year to update the copyright years for those files 
>> fixed in the current year.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
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>> On 4/13/2020 3:48 AM, Jeanette Winzenburg wrote:
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>>> Seeing that missing to update of copyright year in the header is 
>>> rather common (in my own pull requests as well as in others :) is 
>>> there any means to do so automatically or some source tool (for me 
>>> that would be for Eclipse) that would do on request?
>>>
>>> -- Jeanette
>>>
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