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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 2136 | Composr | core_configuration | public | 2016-01-16 01:59 | 2016-01-24 16:49 |
| Reporter | Chris Graham | Assigned To | Chris Graham | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 2136: Auto-extend copyright year setting | ||||
| 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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Thanks for the sponsorship :). I was able to get this one into v10 quickly. 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. |
