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running RAT with excludes (Was: svn status update...)
Branko ??ibej wrote:
> Niall Pemberton wrote:
> > I ran a RAT report (0.6 version) on subversion trunk but theres alot
> > of *noise* from it. I have opened a bug ticket for license header
> > review here:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
>
> Very helpful, thanks.
>
> > It would make review easier if the files without headers had them
> > added. If thats considered a good idea, I'll try and help submitting
> > patches.
>
> Is there any way to make RAT slightly smarter so that it doesn't require
> license headers in README files and such? Does policy dictate these
> files must have license headers, too?
We have been using an "excludes" file to run RAT over Forrest,
driven by the Ant task, using both Buildbot and Gump.
I explained it today to rat-dev, so that should help you
to get started.
-David
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Re: running RAT with excludes (Was: svn status update...)
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:28 PM, David Crossley <cr...@apache.org> wrote:
> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>> David Crossley wrote:
>> > Branko ??ibej wrote:
>> >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>> >> > I ran a RAT report (0.6 version) ?on subversion trunk but theres alot
>> >> > of *noise* from it. I have opened a bug ticket for license header
>> >> > review here:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
>> >>
>> >> Very helpful, thanks.
>> >>
>> >> > It would make review easier if the files without headers had them
>> >> > added. If thats considered a good idea, I'll try and help submitting
>> >> > patches.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way to make RAT slightly smarter so that it doesn't require
>> >> license headers in README files and such? Does policy dictate these
>> >> files must have license headers, too?
>> >
>> > We have been using an "excludes" file to run RAT over Forrest,
>> > driven by the Ant task, using both Buildbot and Gump.
>> >
>> > I explained it today to rat-dev, so that should help you
>> > to get started.
>>
>> Thanks, found it:
>> http://apache.markmail.org/message/xp5xqvw4mmb5yhw7
>>
>> I'll take a look. As Justin pointed out RAT trunk has a -e option for
>> excludes - but perhaps would be easier to build up a list in ant.
>
> We did try the "-e" but it was nowhere near powerful enough for
> our needs. The anttask is beaut.
Thanks David - that works great
Niall
> -David
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Re: running RAT with excludes (Was: svn status update...)
Posted by David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>.
Niall Pemberton wrote:
> David Crossley wrote:
> > Branko ??ibej wrote:
> >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
> >> > I ran a RAT report (0.6 version) ?on subversion trunk but theres alot
> >> > of *noise* from it. I have opened a bug ticket for license header
> >> > review here:
> >> >
> >> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
> >>
> >> Very helpful, thanks.
> >>
> >> > It would make review easier if the files without headers had them
> >> > added. If thats considered a good idea, I'll try and help submitting
> >> > patches.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to make RAT slightly smarter so that it doesn't require
> >> license headers in README files and such? Does policy dictate these
> >> files must have license headers, too?
> >
> > We have been using an "excludes" file to run RAT over Forrest,
> > driven by the Ant task, using both Buildbot and Gump.
> >
> > I explained it today to rat-dev, so that should help you
> > to get started.
>
> Thanks, found it:
> http://apache.markmail.org/message/xp5xqvw4mmb5yhw7
>
> I'll take a look. As Justin pointed out RAT trunk has a -e option for
> excludes - but perhaps would be easier to build up a list in ant.
We did try the "-e" but it was nowhere near powerful enough for
our needs. The anttask is beaut.
-David
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Re: running RAT with excludes (Was: svn status update...)
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:01 PM, David Crossley <cr...@apache.org> wrote:
> Branko ??ibej wrote:
>> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>> > I ran a RAT report (0.6 version) on subversion trunk but theres alot
>> > of *noise* from it. I have opened a bug ticket for license header
>> > review here:
>> >
>> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
>>
>> Very helpful, thanks.
>>
>> > It would make review easier if the files without headers had them
>> > added. If thats considered a good idea, I'll try and help submitting
>> > patches.
>>
>> Is there any way to make RAT slightly smarter so that it doesn't require
>> license headers in README files and such? Does policy dictate these
>> files must have license headers, too?
>
> We have been using an "excludes" file to run RAT over Forrest,
> driven by the Ant task, using both Buildbot and Gump.
>
> I explained it today to rat-dev, so that should help you
> to get started.
Thanks, found it:
http://apache.markmail.org/message/xp5xqvw4mmb5yhw7
I'll take a look. As Justin pointed out RAT trunk has a -e option for
excludes - but perhaps would be easier to build up a list in ant.
Niall
> -David
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