Billie,

Ok understood.  I'll update the release guide to indicate this guidance.

Thanks!
Joe

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it is okay to leave the rat exclusion as is.  However, it is
> important that you verify what has been committed as test resources, along
> with anything else excluded from the rat check, before release.  I'm sure
> that no one will deliberately check in something they know shouldn't be
> there, but people have a tendency to commit things to work around policies
> they don't fully understand -- and understanding ASF policies is not a
> trivial undertaking.  This has happened on every project I've worked on.
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I've resolved all of the items raised in feedback for the 0.0.2
>> release excluding one item which will be discussed in a moment.  All
>> of the feedback and their disposition is captured in this JIRA
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-410
>>
>> The only outstanding item is this feedback:
>>
>> "One thing I'd fix for the next release is the exclusion of test
>> resources from the RAT check. Wouldn't it be better to do that by file
>> extension (e.g., */.json, */.avro) to avoid not checking files that
>> could have license headers?"
>>
>> I would like to leave it as we have it now.  People should take care
>> to apply the apache license header to everything including test data
>> whenever possible.  But we must also be considerate of the fact that
>> test data is just that - test data.  It is important that data under
>> test mirrors exactly the data it is to be run against and certainly
>> data we'd be processing in the wild will not often have license
>> headers.  Given this I don't see how we can keep the RAT exclusion
>> list from turning into a mess.  I prefer to trust that the developers
>> are doing the right thing on test resources and keep the build simple.
>> For non test resources though we retain a very specific and strict
>> check.
>>
>> I'll close the ticket tracking the items raised for now but should
>> folks have a strong view here then certainly we can address it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>>

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