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Check for consistent approach to updating copyright headers across all repos

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the correspondence and current advice and checking practices for copyright-header year updates across the repositories. Done means documenting a consistent approach and identifying how the guidance and checks should be aligned.

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Description

Correspondence has highlighted potential inconsistencies in advice and checking of updating the year in copyright headers across the various repos.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
57
Forks
17
PR merge metrics
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