On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Jan, > > Thanks for asking about Apache Rat and ratscan. > > On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:54 PM, janI wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > As part of making a new central Makefile I found the target "ratscan". > > > > Do we actively use this target or is it a leftover from the move to ASF ? > > The project must do ratscans actively. PMC members need the ratscan output > in order to review IP License compliance. When you +1 a release this is > something that PMC members must check. This is more important to get > correct than the code quality. > > IMO - If you are thinking about auto-build with digital signing then the > ratscan must pass before signed artifacts are generated. It is not required > to make a nightly build. > > For this thread we are only discussing the parts of our svn tree that we > release. [1] > > Best Regards, > Dave > > [1] There is an inactive flame (and let's leave it that way please) about > the parts of the Symphony contribution that are yet to be moved into active > development. > There seems to be a ratscan run against trunk nightly -- see the link on: http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ I don't know who set this up or any details though. Could be the target Jan is referring to is used in this. > > > > rgds > > jan I. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
