On Dec 12, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Craig L Russell wrote:
On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Mark Brouwer wrote:
:
I believe before proposing to Incubator we are supposed to run RAT
(Release Audit Tool) against the release, http://code.google.com/
p/arat/
I'm sure it's great for us to run... but is it a requirement? I
didn't see it in:
<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html>
This section of the referenced document is relevant:
Check copyright notices:
Licenses missing from source files
Source files with other licenses which are not mentioned in LICENSE
Check current policy on headers that all comply
It's not a requirement to run RAT, but it is a requirement to
document the license for each piece of code that Apache
distributes. Running RAT is an alternative to the release manager
going through the entire release, file by file, and making sure
that each file is properly attributed.
So RAT is actually intended to save huge amounts of time compared
to the alternative.
Thanks Craig! That makes sense and clarifies things.
Thanks also in helping by running RAT. We're looking at the things
it found.
-Jim
