[jbosstools-dev] Regarding copyright dates

[Rob Stryker]

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18014

I have some problems with this issue, and I think it needs to be 
clarified. All of my complaints, though, all basically come down to one 
idea:   I think it's inappropriate to bump the copyrights of files that 
have not changed.

The jbosstools-server repository has something like 1400 java files, not 
to mention all the other files that would need changing, features, html, 
translation, etc.

Are there any tools or easy git commands to tell what files have been 
changed and thus need updated copyrights?

I have no intention on updating copyrights in the dozens of wildfly / 
jboss-as schema, since I have not modified them at all.



This issue is really poorly defined, and I find it a little annoying. 
More thought needs to be spent on HOW to accomplish this goal, rather 
than just pushing off to every developer the task of updating all their 
headers regardless of whether a file has changed in any way, or the file 
should be changed, or how to detect changed files.

Furthermore, if you really do intend us all to update all files to unify 
/ standardize, then now would be a good time to tell us what header we 
should be using across the board, since I still see various headers in 
use in various places.

If we can standardize this stuff, then next time we can ensure simple 
greps can do the work for us. Ideally we'd be able to (for next major) 
make a utility that can find all changed files since the end of last 
year, perform the copyright update for us by replacing 20xx-2013  with 
20xx-2014.  We could then run this script every year.  But this depends 
on all files having the same headers or at least the same header format, 
and that means we need to standardize 100% on this.

Let's try to design something here that will be easily re-used and 
updated next year, rather than leave it up to each developer to use 
whatever headers they're currently using and all struggle at checking 
the status of 2000 or more files in each repo each year.