Ignasi,

I'm with you on this.  Let's have a follow-up pull request to strip
comments inside scriptbuilder.

-A


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Ignasi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I really don't like adding headers to script "fragments". I understand
> the need to have a license header in a script, but when it comes to
> compose them to produce one single file that will be copied to the
> deployed nodes and then executed, then we'll end up with scripts with
> the license headers at random parts.
>
> Script execution would not be affected, but reading the script and
> seeing license texts here and there, IMHO gives a feeling of something
> broken, or something that did not get properly generated.
>
> If we must add the license headers to the script fragments, I'd like
> to consider modifying the scriptbuilder to strip comments.
>
> On 16 May 2013 22:11, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> > cool. thanks
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I changed a few places in src/test/resources to deal with scriptbuilder
> >> functions that now spit out test headers - that's reasonable to me
> being as
> >> far as we go.
> >>
> >> A.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > Fair enough.  I'll risk breaking folks to avoid perpetual
> explanations :)
> >> >
> >> > So, the creativity clause seems to help justify lack of checking
> >> > src/test/resource, which only includes test expectation data.  I'm
> going
> >> to
> >> > make a call and continue to filter this out, as otherwise we'd have to
> >> > change our unit tests to emit license headers.
> >> >
> >> > I'll take care of the src/main/resources things (like script
> fragments)
> >> in
> >> > a separate commit as it will break unit tests.
> >> >
> >> > -A
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]
> >> > >wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > And fwiw, I already added headers to a bunch of .sh files to meet
> RAT
> >> > > checks.
> >> > >
> >> > > A.
> >> > >
> >> > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Adrian Cole <
> >> [email protected]>
> >> > > > wrote:
> >> > > > > Hi, all.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > per
> >> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/6#issuecomment-18022286
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > jclouds includes a utility called scriptbuilder, which generates
> >> > shell
> >> > > > > scripts from other fragments.  We've not added license headers
> in
> >> the
> >> > > > past
> >> > > > > as these scripts are combined at runtime.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Ex. you can imagine that doing a command like below, the
> resulting
> >> > > shell
> >> > > > > script would senselessly have multiple ASF license headers
> inlined.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > runScript = new StatementList(installJDK, addRoot);
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I seriously have objections about insisting adding license
> headers
> >> to
> >> > > > > script fragments, not only from the efficiency concern, but also
> >> that
> >> > > it
> >> > > > > adds a chance of hard-to-troubleshoot bugs.  For example, if we
> >> added
> >> > > > > license headers to the script fragment for nohup, everything
> that
> >> > uses
> >> > > > > nohup will have an extra 14 lines of comments, or we'd have to
> >> write
> >> > > code
> >> > > > > to remove it.  In cases where scriptBuilder is used as EC2
> instance
> >> > > data,
> >> > > > > it might push us over the limit.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Bottom-line question is:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Does the ASF require license header on inputs to commands, such
> as
> >> > > shell
> >> > > > > script fragments that are inputs to ScriptBuilder?
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > -A
> >> > > >
> >> > > > So the default answer is that everything human-readable requires a
> >> > > > license header.
> >> > > > There is an exception, namely:
> >> > > > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I went and looked at some of the functions and while I might agree
> >> > > > that something like abort.sh might qualify for the above
> exception,
> >> > > > something like setupPublicCurl.sh doesn't IMO.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Additionally - you'll have folks (mentors and other IPMC members)
> >> > > > reviewing this and their purpose is to catch problems - so you (or
> >> the
> >> > > > release manager) will have to justify not including licenses
> headers
> >> > > > for each of those license-header-excluded files.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > There has been a discussion on legal-discuss about adding a short
> >> form
> >> > > > license header for short files - that would be two comment lines
> >> > > > instead of 16, but it is not established policy. Take a look at
> that
> >> > > > thread and at links from that file.
> >> > > > http://markmail.org/thread/xvrxxkela4goxmk2
> >> > > >
> >> > > > --David
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
>

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