On 17/08/2010 11:10, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Ross Gardler<[email protected]> wrote:
It's called Release Audit Tool and the original proposal was quite broad in
scope.
I'm a plain stupid developer who has used RAT since quite some time
without additional ambitions. Tell me what you'd expect, not what's
written in a proposal, please.
This thread has taken a turn away from my original post. I did not say
that I expect more of the RAT community, I asked is it done? I asked
because the answer affects the future of RAT which is the topic of this
thread.
It is clearly not done with respect to the original proposal, but it is
clearly a useful tool. One that adds to the utility of the perl scripts
that did exactly the same header checks before RAT exists.
I have no problem with people stating it is done and leaving it as is.
What I want to know is "is that it?"
If it is then it is not an audit tool, it is a license header checker
and we need to be careful about people thinking it is more.
Finally, I'm happy to answer the question of what I would like it to do.
I hinted at a couple of issues that go beyond the original proposal in
my first post but I don't want to derail a discussion about the future
home of RAT with detailed technical discussion about what new features
the tool might have.
So for now I'd rather keep the question simple:
"Is it done?"
Ross
