Found another way (committed in latest 'master' version) - simply run 'mvn apache-rat:check' wherever you like in the project and the correct defaults will be applied - regardless of whether the sources are compiled or not...
-----Original Message----- From: Lyor Goldstein [mailto:lgoldst...@vmware.com] Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 11:18 To: dev@mina.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release SSHD 1.0.0 (2nd try) How about: "mvn -DskipTests clean install" ? This will just compile, make sure that all the licenses are OK, etc.., but not run any tests... -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Lécharny [mailto:elecha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 11:15 To: dev@mina.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release SSHD 1.0.0 (2nd try) Le 07/09/15 09:08, Lyor Goldstein a écrit : > This is not I know. The thing is that there is no way to check that the license headers are correct *before* running the release, when we would like to check that beforehand. That means there is probably something we can fix to be able to run the check as a standalone process. Sorry if that was not clear enough.