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     new cc55d24b Fix RAT-508: too much output on level INFO during maven runs 
(#563)
cc55d24b is described below

commit cc55d24b01081d209c33107deb2829fcbe3f7dc6
Author: Claude Warren <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 18 16:45:38 2025 +0100

    Fix RAT-508: too much output on level INFO during maven runs (#563)
    
    * moved some logging from info to debu
    * Added verbose tag for Maven processing
    * changed RAT-469-default test to run with debug
    * RAT-508: Add explicit integration test with site generation and debug 
output
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: P. Ottlinger <[email protected]>
---
 .../resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/commandLine.txt   |  3 +-
 .../it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/verify.groovy  |  4 +-
 .../java/org/apache/rat/ReportConfiguration.java   | 12 ++++++
 .../rat/config/exclusion/ExclusionProcessor.java   | 34 +++++++++++++----
 .../apache/rat/config/results/ClaimValidator.java  |  2 +-
 .../java/org/apache/rat/utils/ReportingSet.java    |  7 +++-
 apache-rat-plugin/pom.xml                          |  2 +-
 .../src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties      |  2 +-
 apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml   |  1 +
 .../src/it/RAT-469-default/verify.groovy           |  5 ++-
 apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/pom.xml           |  1 +
 apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy     |  2 -
 .../invoker.properties                             |  2 +-
 .../src/it/{RAT-469-default => RAT-508}/pom.xml    | 44 +++++++++++++---------
 .../src/it/{RAT-469 => RAT-508}/verify.groovy      | 11 +++---
 .../java/org/apache/rat/mp/AbstractRatMojo.java    | 14 +++++--
 .../main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatCheckMojo.java  | 37 ++++++++++++------
 .../main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatReportMojo.java | 39 ++++++++++++-------
 .../src/site/markdown/migrationguide/0.18.md       |  4 +-
 src/changes/changes.xml                            |  3 ++
 20 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

diff --git 
a/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/commandLine.txt 
b/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/commandLine.txt
index c70017bd..bdea3cd3 100644
--- a/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/commandLine.txt
+++ b/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/commandLine.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 --input-exclude-parsed-scm
 GIT
---
+--log-level
+DEBUG
diff --git a/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/verify.groovy 
b/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/verify.groovy
index 1be9253b..03abff4a 100644
--- a/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/verify.groovy
+++ b/apache-rat-core/src/it/resources/ReportTest/RAT_246/verify.groovy
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ assert content.contains('/dir1/FileToProcess')
 logOutput = new File(args[1])
 log = logOutput.text
 
-assert log.contains('INFO: Processing exclude file from GIT.')
-assert log.contains("INFO: Excluding GIT collection.")
\ No newline at end of file
+assert log.contains('DEBUG: Processing exclude file from GIT.')
+assert log.contains("DEBUG: Excluding GIT collection.")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/ReportConfiguration.java 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/ReportConfiguration.java
index a927b7c0..aacd360b 100644
--- a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/ReportConfiguration.java
+++ b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/ReportConfiguration.java
@@ -175,6 +175,18 @@ public class ReportConfiguration {
         reportables = new ArrayList<>();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Report the excluded files to the appendable object.
+     * @param appendable the appendable object to write to.
+     */
+    public void reportExclusions(final Appendable appendable) {
+        try {
+            exclusionProcessor.reportExclusions(appendable);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().warn("Unable to report exclusions", e);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Adds a file as a source of files to scan.
      * The file must be a text file that lists files to be included.
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/exclusion/ExclusionProcessor.java
 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/exclusion/ExclusionProcessor.java
index 7f908750..dc661b6f 100644
--- 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/exclusion/ExclusionProcessor.java
+++ 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/exclusion/ExclusionProcessor.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.rat.config.exclusion;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
      * @return this
      */
     public ExclusionProcessor addIncludedPatterns(final Iterable<String> 
patterns) {
-        DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Including patterns: %s", 
String.join(", ", patterns)));
+        DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Including patterns: %s", 
String.join(", ", patterns)));
         patterns.forEach(includedPatterns::add);
         resetLastMatcher();
         return this;
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
      */
     public ExclusionProcessor addFileProcessor(final StandardCollection 
collection) {
         if (collection != null) {
-            DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Processing exclude file from 
%s.", collection));
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Processing exclude file 
from %s.", collection));
             fileProcessors.add(collection);
             resetLastMatcher();
         }
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
      */
     public ExclusionProcessor addIncludedCollection(final StandardCollection 
collection) {
         if (collection != null) {
-            DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Including %s collection.", 
collection));
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Including %s collection.", 
collection));
             includedCollections.add(collection);
             resetLastMatcher();
         }
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
      * @return this
      */
     public ExclusionProcessor addExcludedPatterns(final Iterable<String> 
patterns) {
-        DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Excluding patterns: %s", 
String.join(", ", patterns)));
+        DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Excluding patterns: %s", 
String.join(", ", patterns)));
         patterns.forEach(excludedPatterns::add);
         resetLastMatcher();
         return this;
@@ -157,6 +158,25 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
         return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Report the excluded files to the appendable object.
+     * @param appendable the appendable object to write to.
+     */
+    public void reportExclusions(final Appendable appendable) throws 
IOException {
+        appendable.append(format("Excluding patterns: %s%n", String.join(", ", 
excludedPatterns)));
+        appendable.append(format("Including patterns: %s%n", String.join(", ", 
includedPatterns)));
+        for (StandardCollection sc : excludedCollections) {
+            appendable.append(format("Excluding %s collection.%n", sc.name()));
+        }
+        for (StandardCollection sc : includedCollections) {
+            appendable.append(format("Including %s collection.%n", sc.name()));
+        }
+        for (StandardCollection sc : fileProcessors) {
+            appendable.append(format("Processing exclude file from %s.%n", 
sc.name()));
+        }
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Excludes the files/directories specified by a StandardCollection.
      * @param collection the StandardCollection that identifies the files to 
exclude.
@@ -164,7 +184,7 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
      */
     public ExclusionProcessor addExcludedCollection(final StandardCollection 
collection) {
         if (collection != null) {
-            DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Excluding %s collection.", 
collection));
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Excluding %s collection.", 
collection));
             excludedCollections.add(collection);
             resetLastMatcher();
         }
@@ -302,13 +322,13 @@ public class ExclusionProcessor {
     private void extractPaths(final MatcherSet.Builder matcherBuilder) {
         if (!includedPaths.isEmpty()) {
             for (DocumentNameMatcher matcher : includedPaths) {
-                DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Including path matcher 
%s", matcher));
+                DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Including path matcher 
%s", matcher));
                 matcherBuilder.addIncluded(matcher);
             }
         }
         if (!excludedPaths.isEmpty()) {
             for (DocumentNameMatcher matcher : excludedPaths) {
-                DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("Excluding path matcher 
%s", matcher));
+                DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("Excluding path matcher 
%s", matcher));
                 matcherBuilder.addExcluded(matcher);
             }
         }
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/results/ClaimValidator.java
 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/results/ClaimValidator.java
index 25d659b0..f295f276 100644
--- 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/results/ClaimValidator.java
+++ 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/config/results/ClaimValidator.java
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ public final class ClaimValidator {
             if (!isValid(counter, statistic.getCounter(counter))) {
                 DefaultLog.getInstance().error(format("Unexpected count for 
%s, limit is [%s,%s].  Count: %s", counter,
                         min.get(counter), max.get(counter), 
statistic.getCounter(counter)));
-                DefaultLog.getInstance().info(format("%s (%s) is %s", counter, 
counter.displayName(),
+                DefaultLog.getInstance().debug(format("%s (%s) is %s", 
counter, counter.displayName(),
                         StringUtils.uncapitalize(counter.getDescription())));
             }
         }
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/utils/ReportingSet.java 
b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/utils/ReportingSet.java
index 1a05d109..d3c8ea8b 100644
--- a/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/utils/ReportingSet.java
+++ b/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/utils/ReportingSet.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.rat.utils;
 
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ import java.util.function.Function;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
+import org.apache.rat.api.RatException;
+
 /**
  * A sorted set that reports insertion collisions.
  * @param <T> the type of object
@@ -111,10 +114,12 @@ public class ReportingSet<T> implements SortedSet<T> {
      */
     private boolean add(final boolean reportDup, final T e) {
         if (delegate.contains(e)) {
-            String msg = String.format("%s", 
ReportingSet.this.duplicateFmt.apply(e));
+            String msg = ReportingSet.this.duplicateFmt.apply(e);
             if (reportDup) {
                 msg =  String.format("%s (action: %s)", msg, duplicateOption);
                 DefaultLog.getInstance().log(duplicateLogLevel, msg);
+                new RatException("just for trace").printStackTrace(new 
PrintWriter(DefaultLog.getInstance().asWriter()));
+                DefaultLog.getInstance().warn(new RatException("just for 
trace"));
             }
             switch (duplicateOption) {
             case FAIL:
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/pom.xml b/apache-rat-plugin/pom.xml
index 88244c7c..883103ba 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <cloneProjectsTo>${project.basedir}/invoker_target</cloneProjectsTo>
+          
<cloneProjectsTo>${project.build.directory}/invoker_target</cloneProjectsTo>
           
<localRepositoryPath>${project.build.directory}/local-repo</localRepositoryPath>
           <addTestClassPath>true</addTestClassPath>
           <settingsFile>src/it/settings.xml</settingsFile>
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties
index 6486eb1d..1c089b46 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-invoker.goals = clean apache-rat:rat
+invoker.goals = clean -X apache-rat:rat
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml
index e4910f35..a962f9da 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>@pom.version@</version>
         <configuration>
+          <verbose>true</verbose>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <ignoreErrors>false</ignoreErrors>
           <inputIncludes>
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/verify.groovy 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/verify.groovy
index d8abff9f..7e5a1dcc 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/verify.groovy
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/verify.groovy
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ import org.apache.rat.testhelpers.TextUtils
 content = new File(basedir, 'build.log').text
 
 assert content.contains('BUILD SUCCESS')
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Including patterns: pom.xml') // explicit 
inclusion worked
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Processing exclude file from STANDARD_SCMS.') 
// default exclusions worked
+// should be DEBUG because we are running with a -X option.
+assert content.contains('[DEBUG] Including patterns: pom.xml') // explicit 
inclusion worked
+assert content.contains('[DEBUG] Processing exclude file from STANDARD_SCMS.') 
// default exclusions worked
 assert ! content.contains('[WARNING] No resources included')
 
 // Report is in apache-rat-plugin/target/invoker-reports
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/pom.xml 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/pom.xml
index aa894676..10ea7967 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/pom.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>@pom.version@</version>
         <configuration>
+          <verbose>true</verbose>
           <licensesApproved>GPL3</licensesApproved>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <ignoreErrors>false</ignoreErrors>
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy
index b3a7320f..c5b5c0ee 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ import org.apache.rat.testhelpers.TextUtils
 content = new File(basedir, 'build.log').text
 
 assert content.contains('BUILD SUCCESS')
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Including patterns: pom.xml') // explicit 
inclusion worked
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Processing exclude file from STANDARD_SCMS.') 
// default exclusions worked
 assert ! content.contains('[WARNING] No resources included')
 
 // Report is in apache-rat-plugin/target/invoker-reports
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/invoker.properties
similarity index 95%
copy from apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties
copy to apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/invoker.properties
index 6486eb1d..1c089b46 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/invoker.properties
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/invoker.properties
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-invoker.goals = clean apache-rat:rat
+invoker.goals = clean -X apache-rat:rat
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/pom.xml
similarity index 51%
copy from apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml
copy to apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/pom.xml
index e4910f35..6a66121c 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469-default/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/pom.xml
@@ -1,25 +1,28 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
-    RAT-469 integration test
+    RAT-508 integration test
     Copyright (C) 2025, ASF Apache Creadur
 
-    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
-    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-    GNU General Public License for more details.
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
 
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.apache.rat.test</groupId>
-  <artifactId>it-rat469-default</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>it-rat508</artifactId>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <build>
     <plugins>
@@ -28,16 +31,14 @@
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>@pom.version@</version>
         <configuration>
+          <verbose>true</verbose>
           <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
           <ignoreErrors>false</ignoreErrors>
           <inputIncludes>
             <include>pom.xml</include>
           </inputIncludes>
           <inputExcludeStds>
-            <exclude>STANDARD_PATTERNS</exclude>
-            <exclude>STANDARD_SCMS</exclude>
-            <exclude>MAVEN</exclude>
-            <exclude>IDEA</exclude>
+            <exclude>ALL</exclude>
           </inputExcludeStds>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
@@ -48,9 +49,18 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>3.3.2</version>
+          <version>3.5.0</version>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
   </build>
+  <reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
+        <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>@pom.version@</version>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
 </project>
diff --git a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/verify.groovy
similarity index 82%
copy from apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy
copy to apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/verify.groovy
index b3a7320f..3e801af3 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-469/verify.groovy
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/it/RAT-508/verify.groovy
@@ -18,20 +18,21 @@ import org.apache.rat.testhelpers.TextUtils
 
 content = new File(basedir, 'build.log').text
 
+// verify debug output
+assert content.contains('input-exclude-std ALL')
+assert content.contains('Adding [MAVEN] to input-exclude-std')
+assert content.contains('Including patterns: pom.xml')
+
 assert content.contains('BUILD SUCCESS')
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Including patterns: pom.xml') // explicit 
inclusion worked
-assert content.contains('[INFO] Processing exclude file from STANDARD_SCMS.') 
// default exclusions worked
 assert ! content.contains('[WARNING] No resources included')
 
 // Report is in apache-rat-plugin/target/invoker-reports
+// Make sure that report is generated completely
 report = new File(basedir, 'target/site/rat-report.html').text
 assert TextUtils.isMatching("^  /verify.groovy\\s+S ", report)
 assert TextUtils.isMatching("^  /pom.xml\\s+S ", report)
 
 assert report.contains('Unapproved:         0')
-assert report.contains('GPL  : 1')
-assert report.contains('    GPL      GPL3          GNU General Public License 
V3.0')
-
 assert report.contains('AL       AL2.0         Apache License 2.0')
 assert report.contains('Approved:           3')
 assert report.contains('Standards:          3')
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/AbstractRatMojo.java 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/AbstractRatMojo.java
index 0ecbe939..6624022e 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/AbstractRatMojo.java
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/AbstractRatMojo.java
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ public abstract class AbstractRatMojo extends BaseRatMojo {
     @Parameter(property = "rat.basedir", defaultValue = "${basedir}", required 
= true)
     private File basedir;
 
+    /**
+     * Specifies the verbose output.
+     * @since 0.8
+     */
+    @Parameter(property = "rat.verbose", defaultValue = "false")
+    protected boolean verbose;
+
     /**
      * Specifies the licenses to accept. By default, these are added to the 
default
      * licenses, unless you set &lt;addDefaultLicenseMatchers&gt; to false. 
Arguments should be
@@ -266,7 +273,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRatMojo extends BaseRatMojo {
     }
 
     protected Defaults.Builder getDefaultsBuilder() {
-        Defaults.Builder result = Defaults.builder();
+        Defaults.Builder result = Defaults.builder().noDefault();
         if (defaultLicenseFiles != null) {
             for (String defaultLicenseFile : defaultLicenseFiles) {
                 result.add(defaultLicenseFile);
@@ -462,7 +469,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRatMojo extends BaseRatMojo {
         Log log = DefaultLog.getInstance();
         if (reportConfiguration == null) {
             try {
-                if (super.getLog().isDebugEnabled()) {
+                if (getLog().isDebugEnabled()) {
                     log.debug("Start BaseRatMojo Configuration options");
                     for (Map.Entry<String, List<String>> entry : 
args.entrySet()) {
                         log.debug(format(" * %s %s", entry.getKey(), 
String.join(", ", entry.getValue())));
@@ -472,10 +479,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractRatMojo extends BaseRatMojo {
 
                 boolean helpLicenses = !getValues(Arg.HELP_LICENSES).isEmpty();
                 removeKey(Arg.HELP_LICENSES);
-
                 setIncludeExclude();
 
-                getLog().warn("Basedir is : " + basedir);
+                getLog().debug("Basedir is : " + basedir);
                 ReportConfiguration config = 
OptionCollection.parseCommands(basedir, args().toArray(new String[0]),
                         o -> getLog().warn("Help option not supported"),
                         true);
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatCheckMojo.java 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatCheckMojo.java
index 13ea48b2..6fabeb60 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatCheckMojo.java
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatCheckMojo.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.rat.mp;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ import org.apache.rat.commandline.StyleSheets;
 import org.apache.rat.license.LicenseSetFactory.LicenseFilter;
 import org.apache.rat.report.claim.ClaimStatistic;
 import org.apache.rat.utils.DefaultLog;
+import org.apache.rat.utils.Log;
 
 import static java.lang.String.format;
 
@@ -179,24 +181,33 @@ public class RatCheckMojo extends AbstractRatMojo {
             setArg(Arg.OUTPUT_FILE.option().getLongOpt(), 
defaultReportFile.getAbsolutePath());
         }
 
-        ReportConfiguration config = getConfiguration();
-
-        logLicenses(config.getLicenses(LicenseFilter.ALL));
-        try {
-            this.reporter = new Reporter(config);
-            reporter.output();
-            check(config);
-        } catch (MojoFailureException e) {
-            throw e;
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new MojoExecutionException(e.getMessage(), e);
+        try (Writer logWriter = DefaultLog.getInstance().asWriter()) {
+            ReportConfiguration config = getConfiguration();
+            logLicenses(config.getLicenses(LicenseFilter.ALL));
+            if (verbose) {
+                config.reportExclusions(logWriter);
+            }
+            try {
+                this.reporter = new Reporter(config);
+                reporter.output();
+                if (verbose) {
+                    reporter.writeSummary(logWriter);
+                }
+                check(config);
+            } catch (MojoFailureException e) {
+                throw e;
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                throw new MojoExecutionException(e.getMessage(), e);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().warn("Unable to close writable log.", e);
         }
     }
 
     protected void check(final ReportConfiguration config) throws 
MojoFailureException {
         ClaimStatistic statistics = reporter.getClaimsStatistic();
         try {
-           reporter.writeSummary(DefaultLog.getInstance().asWriter());
+           
reporter.writeSummary(DefaultLog.getInstance().asWriter(Log.Level.DEBUG));
            if (config.getClaimValidator().hasErrors()) {
                config.getClaimValidator().logIssues(statistics);
                if (consoleOutput &&
@@ -219,6 +230,8 @@ public class RatCheckMojo extends AbstractRatMojo {
                } else {
                    getLog().info(msg);
                }
+           } else {
+               DefaultLog.getInstance().info("No issues found.");
            }
         } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new MojoFailureException(e);
diff --git 
a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatReportMojo.java 
b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatReportMojo.java
index 900d78f2..330d3c5e 100644
--- a/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatReportMojo.java
+++ b/apache-rat-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/mp/RatReportMojo.java
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ import org.apache.maven.reporting.MavenReportException;
 import org.apache.rat.ReportConfiguration;
 import org.apache.rat.Reporter;
 import org.apache.rat.VersionInfo;
+import org.apache.rat.api.RatException;
 import org.apache.rat.license.LicenseSetFactory.LicenseFilter;
+import org.apache.rat.utils.DefaultLog;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory;
 import org.eclipse.aether.repository.ArtifactRepository;
 import org.eclipse.aether.repository.RemoteRepository;
@@ -88,6 +90,7 @@ public class RatReportMojo extends AbstractRatMojo implements 
MavenMultiPageRepo
     @Parameter(property = "outputEncoding", defaultValue = 
"${project.reporting.outputEncoding}", readonly = true)
     private String outputEncoding;
 
+
     /**
      * The local repository.
      */
@@ -428,25 +431,33 @@ public class RatReportMojo extends AbstractRatMojo 
implements MavenMultiPageRepo
         sink.link(bundle.getString("report.rat.url"));
         sink.text(bundle.getString("report.rat.fullName"));
         sink.link_();
-        final String ratVersion = new 
VersionInfo(RatReportMojo.class).toString();
-        if (ratVersion != null) {
-            sink.text(" " + ratVersion);
-        }
+        sink.text(" " + new VersionInfo(RatReportMojo.class));
         sink.text(".");
         sink.paragraph_();
 
         sink.paragraph();
         sink.verbatim(new SinkEventAttributeSet());
-        try {
-            ReportConfiguration config = getConfiguration();
-            config.setFrom(getDefaultsBuilder().build());
-            logLicenses(config.getLicenses(LicenseFilter.ALL));
-            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-            config.setOut(() -> baos);
-            new Reporter(config).output();
-            sink.text(baos.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name()));
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new MavenReportException(e.getMessage(), e);
+        try (Writer logWriter = DefaultLog.getInstance().asWriter()) {
+            try {
+                ReportConfiguration config = getConfiguration();
+                config.setFrom(getDefaultsBuilder().build());
+                logLicenses(config.getLicenses(LicenseFilter.ALL));
+                if (verbose) {
+                    config.reportExclusions(logWriter);
+                }
+                ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                config.setOut(() -> baos);
+                Reporter reporter = new Reporter(config);
+                reporter.output();
+                if (verbose) {
+                    reporter.writeSummary(logWriter);
+                }
+                sink.text(baos.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name()));
+            } catch (IOException | MojoExecutionException | RatException e) {
+                throw new MavenReportException(e.getMessage(), e);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            DefaultLog.getInstance().warn("Unable to close log writer", e);
         }
         sink.verbatim_();
         sink.paragraph_();
diff --git a/apache-rat/src/site/markdown/migrationguide/0.18.md 
b/apache-rat/src/site/markdown/migrationguide/0.18.md
index 7ca7093e..3705e3e6 100644
--- a/apache-rat/src/site/markdown/migrationguide/0.18.md
+++ b/apache-rat/src/site/markdown/migrationguide/0.18.md
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ Release 0.18 is an intermediate release as we are working on 
big architectural c
 
 ## Maven
 
-tbd
-
-* tbd - replace option ```<foo>``` by ```<bar>```
+* [RAT-508](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-508) reduced the logging 
output of exclusion parsers and the exclusion engine. If you want to see these 
messages run with ```-X``` or use the ```<verbose>true</verbose>``` option in 
your pom.xml or ```-Drat.verbose=true``` on the command line.
 
 [<<< back to migration guide overview](../migration_guide.html)
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 301933e6..2eb18169 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ in order to be properly linked in site reports.
     </release>
     -->
     <release version="1.0.0" date="xxxx-yy-zz" description="Current SNAPSHOT - 
release to be done">
+      <action issue="RAT-508" type="update" dev="claudenw" due-to="Gary D. 
Gregory">
+        Removed excess INFO logging in Maven plugin. Run with -X or use the 
verbose option in order to see output on debug level.
+      </action>  
       <action issue="RAT-498" type="update" dev="pottlinger">
         Update Maven wrapper to v3.9.12.
       </action>

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