[Incubator] header maintenance discussion

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hi Jody,

I'd urge caution in dealing with these types of issues.

Perhaps an approach could be made to the OSI or similar for advice.

Another approach could be to automate the whole management of IP where
possible. There are approaches such as Palamida [1] that may be of use.


Bruce

[1] http://www.palamida.com/



From: Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody
> Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 12:20
> To: Incubator <Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Incubator] header maintenance discussion
>
> I know that updating headers (or actually checking file history) is a
> difficult step for those going through incubation.
>
> I would like to pass on an interesting discussion from the geotools-devel
> list - we consider updating our header policy (since we cannot depend on
> incoming pull requests to be good about following it).
>
>
> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/Updates-to-Copyright-Header-Policy
>
> While I am personally uncomfortable with changing (since headers have
> really helped untangled some troubles in the past) I wonder what other
> projects in incubation think?
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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