> On 02 Mar 2016, at 20:32, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just noticed, that the porter's handbook title page still shows
>> copyright 2014 and a commit from 2014:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/
>> 
>> "Revision: 45423
>> 
>> Copyright © 2000-2014 The FreeBSD Documentation Project
>> Copyright
>> Legal Notice
>> Last modified on 2014-08-08 by rene."
>> 
>> Should I post a patch or is there an automatic process that needs to be
>> fixed?
> 
> The "last modified" date comes from the $FreeBSD$ tag, but only the one in 
> the book.xml file.  So it is misleading, and usually not the date of the most 
> recent update to the book.  Fixing this would require scanning the document 
> sources for the most recent date in the doc toolchain, which is possible, 
> it's just something that needs to be done.
> 
> I'll update the copyright, and that will also change the date in book.xml.  
> So it will be correct until one of the other files changes...

Thanks.

I noticed when I forwarded the link to a young talent that the "last changed" 
date of 2014 didn't look encouraging in terms of contributing to a vibrant 
community.

- Michael 
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