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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:46:48 -0700
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Copyright work
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Thanks, David.

David Van Couvering wrote:

> I am looking at the scope of this work, and I do not believe I can 
> accomplish this by the end of next week if it is just me working on it.
>
> Luckily, this task is easily chunked up.  I have some scripts that I 
> got from the Apache site, and I am fine-tuning these.  Once I have 
> them working, I can make them available, and we can do 
> divide-and-conquer with this task.  Let me know if you're interested 
> in helping and we can find a way to coordinate -- I am thinking a Wiki 
> page might be a good way to do this.
>
> I also would like to understand better the consequences of doing this 
> task after the code branch, as it does not have any functional changes 
> and does not even impact tests (unless somebody did something wrong).
>
I can think of 2 consequences:

1) (Minor) It means we will have to flunk the first release candidate.

2) It means that a big slug of changes will have to be applied to two 
codelines.

Regards,
-Rick

 

> Thanks,
>
> David