Open Stack

On 05/17/2013 08:16 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> I'm generally +1 on this, however it's going to be hard to get
> organizations to agree to this while other orgs are listed in the source
> files. From an IBM perspective, I've gotten agreement that we're cool
> with this, as long as it's consistent. A patch work where some
> copyrights are still listed, but others aren't allowed in, isn't going
> to fly.
> 
> My suggestion, is that we declare a flag day (like June 15), and that
> someone needs to make an objection by then, otherwise this is new
> policy. We create a new hacking rule that projects can use to enforce it.
> 
> Then we have a couple of volunteers lined up to generate, and review
> through mass removals from the code for each openstack/ project, plus
> flipping on the hacking rule.

+1 on the need for consistency.

In order of my personal preference:

1) completely accurate and up-to-date copyright headers
2) no copyright headers (just the license)
3) what we have now (incomplete, inaccurate, out of date)

I'm fine with 1 or 2 ... but big +1 on not 3.

If we're going to #2, I definitely think we just need to remove all of
it.  If we can't do that, we should just aim for #1 by doing a better
job of documenting and educating on the expectations here, and having
reviewers do a better job of checking for it.

-- 
Russell Bryant