In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
file will have been modified by a large number of different
contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
record of authorship.
With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to find the
author of a particular bit of code.
This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
a rule to prevent them reappearing.
The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
their respective copyright statement.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Some of our scripts are known to work both with Python 2 and
Python 3, so for them we shouldn't be forcing any specific
version of the interpreter when they're called directly; we
always use $(PYTHON) explicitly in our build rules anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The script already works perfectly fine with Python 2, but that's
more by chance than by design: we have a single occurrence of
print(), and it just so happens that its only argument is an
expression. Importing print_function makes the script more future,
err, past proof.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This is particularly useful on operating systems that don't ship
Python as part of the base system (eg. FreeBSD) while still working
just as well as it did before on Linux.
While at it, make it explicit that our scripts are only going to
work with Python 2, and remove the usage of unbuffered I/O, which
as far as I can tell has no effect on the output files.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Instead of encoding formatting information inside the
corresponding XSLT stylesheet, use a Python script to reformat
the text appropriately based on a few simple markers.
Splitting the task between the XSLT stylesheet and the Python
script allows us to keep both parts very simple.
