relicenseupdate.pl script issues/questions

[Jack]

On 1/19/19 8:49 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El diumenge, 20 de gener de 2019, a les 0:27:42 CET, Jack va escriure:
>> Sorry to reply to my own post so soon, but I did find something.
>>
>> On 2019.01.19 18:18, Jack Ostroff wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> relicenseupdate.pl is a script in the kde-dev-scripts repository.  It
>>> is referred to on the page
>>> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing.  Unfortunately, it
>>> is not really clear how this is supposed to work.  I posted a
>>> question on the Discussion page for that page last January, but no
>>> response.  It turns out the problem I was having last year was that I
>>> had checked out the repository with the anon link.  However, I just
>>> cloned it again with my dev account, but I still get an error trying
>>> to push my commit:  "fatal: remote error: access denied or repository
>>> not exported: /kde-dev-scripts.git"
>>>
>>> Is this just a permission issue, am I doing something wrong, or are
>>> the instructions just wrong?  Is there actually somewhere else I
>>> should raise this issue?
>>>
>>> As a separate issue, when I run that script against the KMyMoney
>>> repository, it complains about not finding an email address in the
>>> accounts list.  I identified the first one as being someone who used
>>> one email for most commits, but a separate one for just a few.  The
>>> next one it found - I have not yet even found the commit made by that
>>> email address, so I'm sort of stuck on how to proceed.
>> The email the script is complaining about is someone who authored an
>> update (actually updated screen shots for the manual) but the commit
>> was done by someone else.  Even if I get that person's permission to
>> add him to relicensecheck.pl, that script will continue to complain
>> about his email address, since it will not be in the accounts file,
>> unless he does get a developer account.  Entries in the script are by
>> username, not email, so I don't see any way around this, unless a file
>> is added to accounts and disabled-accounts, such as
>> non-committing-authors (or some shorter version).
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> Still true.
> What is that you're trying to achieve by running the script? i.e. do you want to relicense something? What? Why?
>
> On a side note, the script is just a way to know if there's some stuff you need to double check, you don't need to have "a clean run" of the script before doing relicensing, what you need to do before doing relicensing is making sure you can do it.
>
> Also, why send this question to the user documentation mailing list? Seems a bit off topic (unless what you want to relicense is some documentation i guess)
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert

Hello Albert,

You may remember that about a year ago, I tried to redo the licensing of 
the KMyMoney documentation files, but in fact, didn't actually have all 
the necessary permissions.  As part of that effort, I was trying to add 
myself to the script.  In addition, I want to get the list of 
contributors to KMyMoney, in case I might get some of them to agree to 
be added to the script.  So - I have a few separate questions.  I posted 
here since my starting point was the documentation for KMyMoney.  As I 
said, I'd be happy to be redirected to whoever is actually more 
responsible for the script itself, since it deals with code as well as 
documentation.  My understanding is that the script will provide a full 
list of contributors, and what additional permissions any of them would 
need to grant in order to relicense - whether for code or documentation,


Jack