#2136 - Auto-extend copyright year setting
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By Chris Graham
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| Identifier | #2136 |
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| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Auto-extend copyright year setting |
| Status | Completed |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | core_configuration |
| Description | I'm stubborn about the idea that we should not be automatically raising the copyright year.
The copyright year represents the year at which there was a last a change on the site. If someone makes a site, and doesn't change anything for 5 years, it would be a misrepresentation for the copyright year to keep going up. It's purely a theoretical issue, nobody is going to get sued, but I think it's important as a matter of principal. However, we obviously also want to minimise maintenance for people. A reasonable compromise would be a new mode whereby the copyright symbol will go up, so long as a member of staff has done some logged action on the site. Therefore in our log_it function, we would detect such an event, and detect if copyright is out-dated, and bump the copyright forward. For this to happen the copyright setting would need marking up somehow to indicate for us to do it. We'd have this as the default. |
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| Funded? | No |
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The syntax will be like...
Copyright © $CURRENT_YEAR=2015
Composr will trim the "$CURRENT_YEAR=" bit out when displaying, but when managing content it will spot it and refresh the year that follows back into the option setting if needed.