Hi, Sebb, could you please be so kind and have a look into the release-notes.vm of RAT? I am getting the error below and don't feel confident to resolve that without help.
Thanks, Jochen $ mvn clean install -Prelease-notes -Dchanges.version=0.12 [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Build Order: [INFO] [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::API [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Core [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Plugin4Maven [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Tasks4Ant [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Command Line [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Apache Creadur Rat 0.12-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ apache-rat-project --- [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.3.1:enforce (enforce-bytecode-version) @ apache-rat-project --- [INFO] [INFO] --- apache-rat-plugin:0.11:check (default) @ apache-rat-project --- [INFO] 56 implicit excludes (use -debug for more details). [INFO] Exclude: BUILD.txt [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat/README*.txt [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat-core/src/test/resources/** [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat*/target/** [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat-plugin/src/test/resources/** [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat-plugin/src/it/** [INFO] Exclude: apache-rat-tasks/src/test/resources/** [INFO] 16 resources included (use -debug for more details) [INFO] Rat check: Summary of files. Unapproved: 0 unknown: 0 generated: 0 approved: 11 licence. [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.5:process (default) @ apache-rat-project --- [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-changes-plugin:2.11:announcement-generate (create-release-notes) @ apache-rat-project --- [INFO] Including issues from file C:\Users\jwi\rat\apache-rat-project\src\changes\changes.xml in announcement... [debug] Found 7 releases. [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 61, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 62, column 23] [ERROR] Right side ($indent1.length()) of '<' operation has null value at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 63, column 23] [ERROR] Exception in macro #processaction called at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 87, column 1] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat ................................. FAILURE [ 2.332 s] [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::API ............................ SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Core ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Plugin4Maven ................... SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Tasks4Ant ...................... SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Creadur Rat::Command Line ................... SKIPPED [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2.587 s [INFO] Finished at: 2015-09-30T16:42:13+02:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 27M/317M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-changes-plugin:2.11:announcement-generate (create-release-notes) on project apache-rat-project: org.apache.velocity.exception.VelocityException: org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'replaceAll' in class java.lang.String threw exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference at src/changes/release-notes.vm[line 57, column 22] -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
