On 11 September 2014 22:05, P. Ottlinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 11.09.2014 um 12:30 schrieb sebb: >> On 11 September 2014 11:22, P. Ottlinger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hi guys, >>> > >>> > does anyone of you see the use case of blocking the reports? >> Yes. >> >> If the site build includes the RAT report, how else does one suppress it? > > I still don't see how that may make sense, but applied the patch since > it's not a big problem .... > > Why do I enable RAT for site generation and skip it then? That's the > same as including findbugs and disabling it - it may be possible, but > IMHO not really a practical way to use the findbugs plugin.
I think the main usage is to be able to suppress the report for a specific Maven build, not to skip RAT permanently. Similarly, -DskipTests can be useful sometimes. And indeed it can be useful to suppress Findbugs as well sometimes. > Thanks for your opinion, > > Phil > >
