> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:23:10PM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > > >>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korp...@helsinki.fi> > > >>>>> on Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:02:58 +0200 writes: > > > > > With new R releases soon to come, I suggest updating the > > > Rcopyright macro in "doc/manual/R-defs.texi" to use year > > > 2017. > > > > Now this is an e-mail that *REALLY* does not fit to the R-devel > > mailing list ... even though it is very very slightly related to > > the R sources. > > > > We do *not* want noise on R-devel, please. > > > > (and let's continue this issue in private if you want) > > Martin
> Martin, I'm confused. Should Mikko have sent his suggestion to the > bugtracker, or just left it to the R Core Team to figure out for > themselves? Are we not grateful for valid suggestions? What's the > lesson here? Maybe I'm the only slow one on the list, but to me your > reply would have been a bit more helpful if it told us what to do, not > just what not to do... Well, I really basically meant to do "nothing". Mikko and I had continued the conversation in private, but here is an excerpt of what I wrote to him: I think this is a case you should not even have reported at all, because - it is really not important: AFAIK, if you have copyright, the updating to new years is not important for legal reasons, but only for "propaganda". - (==> ) We don't ever update copyrights if we don't change the document, and even then do it often but not always. - more importantly: We don't clutter the SCM log files by *only* just changing such dates. Some (even most?) of us, do update the copyright, if we do some real (non-trivial) change to the document, *and* notice that the last copyright is smaller than the current year. I also told him that yes indeed we are grateful to learn about errors including typos in manuals.... ambigous statements there, etc. Note that sometimes even these may not need to go to R-devel (with its 1000's of subscribers rather interested into the development of R, future features, bug fixes or changes of R..) and rather be reported to R core or individuals whom you may have identified (via svn logs) as working with these documents recently. Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel