This is an awesome change you are proposing - and amazing to think that the copyright tool had such effects. The change to allow patching for security fixes is great.
PS I haven't used the copyright tool in a long time. CDT project did use it in the distant past, but I don't think it has been used in years. The last (and only?) time it was used on CDT was 2015 https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt/+/63256 Jonah ~~~ Jonah Graham Kichwa Coders www.kichwacoders.com On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 12:00, Aleksandar Kurtakov <[email protected]> wrote: > Question is about [1] being still used by anyone. I haven't seen anyone > using it/running it on git repos like it has been in the past. Changing > copyright year in every file is not mandatory for Eclipse TLP since 2016 > [2] and has never been mandatory for other projects AFAIK. > What I look for is removing this part of Eclipse Releng plugin to gain the > following benefits: > 1. Drop dependency on EGit in Eclipse Platform and thus circular build > dependency. > 2. Point 1 will allow to to build Eclipse Platform p2 repo in a way that > includes all transitive dependencies [3] > 3. Point 2 will allow to switch third-party dependencies to require rather > than include and thus support version ranges. > 4. Point 3 will allow updates of third party dependencies for security > reasons to be far simpler as currently it's a terrible experience [4] > 5. Point 3 will simplify updates of third party dependencies in Eclipse > Platform releng as touching features should be far less frequent event just > cause exact version is hardcoded in includes. e.g. [5] > > The potential benefit is quite big so please come up with proposals > how/what to do and still improve our procedures. > > [1] > https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/How_to_Use_Eclipse_Copyright_Tool > [2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC/Minutes_2016 > [3] > https://www.eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-p2/tycho-p2-repository-plugin/assemble-repository-mojo.html#includeAllDependencies > [4] https://www.eclipse.org/lists/tycho-user/msg08879.html > [5] > https://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.bundles.git/commit/?id=58e5c221bfc493e40d499f58c93a17cc14d061ac > > -- > Alexander Kurtakov > Red Hat Eclipse Team > _______________________________________________ > eclipse-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-dev >
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