On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:24 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 February 2016 at 00:14, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> a podling recently asked me why: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/relicense/ >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/tools/copy2license.pl >> are only available to commiters. I see >> no reason why, but of course I'm appreciative >> of the warning here: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/README >> >> Two questions: >> 1. Is there any disagreement that making this tool publically >> available would be a 'good thing' ? > > Yes, there are caveats: > - as I recall, the tools are not perfect, and have not seen any recent > development. > - is it safe to automate the update of license headers? This is > generally something that needs to be addressed file by file.
Sure. But the above literally applies to all of our software (there are always caveats). At any rate, seems like there's enough agreement to make them publicly available (note I'm not saying advertising them or anything). I'll let it stew till Mon and then JFDY Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
