Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/6/8 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>: >> i've made a start at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2009 >> >> please just dive in and edit > > A point of discussion based on your existing report: > > "To graduate as a top level project, significant numbers of new > developers would need to be attracted. This would probably require > significant energy to be devoted first into extending it's usefulness > beyond Apache-like open source projects then raising it's profile." > > I would suggest that you note that the release attracted activity from > the nascent community and that this bodes well for future development. > I would also suggest that the project should focus on encouraging > Apache projects to use the tool, perhaps a Gump style build and report > mechanism should be a focus for the current team. This will raise > awareness of the utility of RAT.
sounds good - please dive in and add it > On one of my non-ASF projects I use RAT in my CI server to tell me > when someone commits a file that breaks the RAT checks. This is really > useful. RAT is useful but ATM the logic isn't flexible or powerful enough for many applications outside apache - robert
