On Aug 26, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: > On 08/26/11 02:45 PM, Sean Mullan wrote: >> On 8/26/11 9:42 AM, Weijun Wang wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 08/26/2011 09:15 PM, Sean Mullan wrote: >>>> Looks fine though you missed updating the copyright date on the test. >>> >>> Recently I form a new habit of not touching copyright years at all, so >>> that a changeset can be ported to another version with no change at all. >> >> Ok, so does that mean someone else will update the copyright later on? > > This comes up from time to time, and I've never seen a definitive answer ( > unless the answer is do whatever you like ;-) ). > > There is a script in the repo [1] for updating the copyright year, that is > run occasionally. I typically leave it to the script to take care of the > updates, but occasionally take it upon myself. I don't think there is a hard > and fast rule here, but I stand to be corrected.
There is no hard and fast rule, and it's ok to leave them alone. I have taken it upon myself to run this script occasionally, but the real responsibility has never been assigned to any one person or group, I hope to correct that. Just not sure who the target of my attempt will be yet. ;^) -kto > > -Chris > > [1] > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/file/tip/make/scripts/update_copyright_year.sh > >> >> --Sean
