Removing author related information WAS Re: Test Snapshot Release 4?

[Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>]

Thanks Marco,

your patch is in svn rev. 454293

Jacopo

Marco Risaliti wrote:
> Hi Jacopo,
> 
> first of all thanks for your work of removing author information that 
> you have done today.
> I have update my local build and I have seen some more information of 
> author is remaining on the sources and so I will send you this patch.
> I'm sorry but I was not able to help you during the day.
> I have seen also into InventoryServices.java a reference 
> to http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/browse/OFBIZ-662 and I don't if it 
> must be removed from the source file.
> 
> Thanks again
> Marco
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> Il giorno 08/ott/06, alle ore 18:35, Jacopo Cappellato ha scritto:
> 
>> David, all,
>>
>> when will we vote for a new Test Snapshot Release?
>>
>> Here is a list of open tasks (some of them are minor and/or optional), 
>> based on feedback from the Incubator's guys:
>>
>> *** From Leo Simons ***
>>
>> 1) You're shipping various libraries and stuff which I know include 
>> NOTICE files of their own, but those notices are not found or 
>> referenced anywhere outside their jars (for example ant.jar has a 
>> META-INF/NOTICE.txt). I would say the NOTICE file should point to 
>> those other notice files that exist somewhere deep within such a big 
>> distribution, but I think that's maybe not a legal requirement.
>>
>> 2) I downloaded the tgz. I always get annoyed when a software release 
>> doesn't extract into an obvious name. Eg `tar zxf apache-of* && cd 
>> apache-of*` should work. Probably a religious subject.
>>
>> 3) the statistical sample (random clicking) of files I opened all have 
>> "copyright 2001-2006 The ASF". I suspect that's wrong, since IIRC 
>> ofbiz wasn't @ apache in 2001. The year 2001 should probably be 
>> replaced by the year when development of ofbiz started @ apache.
>>
>> 4) even if you don't branch, you should really do an `svn tag` for any 
>> release (even RCs). Tagging is basically free, and it provides that 
>> much more clarity on 'what is what'
>>
>> *** From Robert Burren Donkin ***
>>
>> 5) FYI a source distribution is required but i'm assume that you know
>> how to svn export
>>
>> And here are my comments:
>>
>> #1: completing the NOTICE file is the last big task that we have to 
>> do... and I'm not sure to understand what we have to do to complete it.
>>
>> #2, #4 are suggestions that we can include to the TSR process (as 
>> documented in the doc site) and can be considered when preparing the 
>> release files.
>>
>> #5: even if I don't agree with some of Robert's arguments for asking 
>> this, I think that we can easily create such a file for the release
>>
>> #3: if you want I can work on this... what is the correct copyright 
>> notice that should be used instead?
>>
>> Jacopo
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