From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Updating copyright years Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:54:39 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325807700 12730 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 23:55:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 00:54:56 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix95-0005z3-UC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:54:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57342 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix95-0003rA-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix92-0003qt-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix91-0005P6-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]:57694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix90-0005Ou-SR; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45610) by orlando.hostforweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rix8x-0002D1-NH; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:54:48 -0600 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`; Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu; B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (i686-pc-cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sl0kGwlvEHsOKLjLFRizvXt9yqI= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-Received-From: 216.246.45.90 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147369 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80777 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of >> every year regardless of having been changed or not. > Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in > admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU > Software": > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices > To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have > made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using > a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every > revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.) > When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which > files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have > not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files > in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. This clalified. Thanks. I think it's ok for the Gnus trunk.