Hi, I have reworked the docs of the apache-rat-plugin today. Seemed to me to be a prerequisite for 0.6. I have also moved several slow plugins to the release profile. This means, that they aren't invoked usually, unless you use the "-Prelease" parameter when invoking Maven. (Which you need to do anyways when creating a release.)
Btw, I'd be interested to give the Nexus staging repository a try. See INFRA-1896 for details. This would remove a lot of manual work in the release publication. Would that be okay? If so, I'd request access for RAT to Nexus. Thanks, Jochen -- I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -- (Bjarne Stroustrup, http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that My guess: Nokia E50)