On the automation side of things, what kind of access do we have to the
actual repository? Seems like it would be extremely simple to wire in a
pre-commit hook that uses a regex to check the copyright dates (of
course, there are different licenses, so the test would have to be
fairly smart) and reject those commits that have not been updated.
On 3/24/10 1:08 PM, Tim Quinn wrote:
> Can you share the script?
>
> I don't expect there's a simple way to distinguish the false positives
> from the real ones - maybe an exception list as with FindBugs? - but
> I'll take a quick look.
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>
>> Tim Quinn wrote on 03/24/10 07:06 AM:
>>> At least some of the check-ins in 2010 were the rollback of earlier
>>> changes made in 2010 to the files' 2009 states. So the resulting state
>>> of the source is as it was in 2009 even though the latest action on the
>>> file was in 2010. I would think that the copyright for such a file
>>> should remain 2009 since the code in such a file has not been
>>> changed in
>>> 2010.
>>>
>>> I guess the script that generated this list does not account for that
>>> case so we have some false positives here?
>>
>> There's no way the script can know that. It only knows when the file
>> was last changed in svn. If you can think of a way the script can
>> figure
>> that out, let me know. Otherwise, please update the dates to 2010 so
>> the script can continue to check for errors.
>>
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