From d8a3008000d6658cca79c83e2a37b21ea65fb601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:43:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add update-copyright post. --- posts/update-copyright.mdwn | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/update-copyright.mdwn diff --git a/posts/update-copyright.mdwn b/posts/update-copyright.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4bd22c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/update-copyright.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +[[!meta title="update-copyright"]] +[[!template id="gitrepo" repo="update-copyright"]] + +A few years ago I was getting tired of having missing or out-of-date +copyright blurbs in packages that I was involved with (old license +text, missing authors, etc.). This is important stuff, but not the +kind of thing that is fun to maintain by hand. I wrote a script for +[bugs everywhere][be] that automated the process, using the version +control system to extract lists of authors and dates for each file. +The script was great, so I ported it into a few other projects I was +involved in. + +This month I realized that it would be much easier to just break the +script out into its own package, and only maintain a config file in +each of the projects that use it. I don't know why this didn't occur +to me years ago :p. Anyhow, here it is! Enjoy. + +The `README`, with usage details, is posted on the [PyPI page][pypi]. + +[be]: http://bugseverywhere.org/ +[pypi]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/update-copyright/ + +[[!tag tags/code]] +[[!tag tags/programming]] +[[!tag tags/pypi]] +[[!tag tags/python]] -- 2.26.2