On 2 November 2013 23:03, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Hi Jan, > > > > Thanks for asking about Apache Rat and ratscan. > > > > On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:54 PM, janI wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > As part of making a new central Makefile I found the target "ratscan". > > > > > > Do we actively use this target or is it a leftover from the move to > ASF ? > > > > The project must do ratscans actively. PMC members need the ratscan > output > > in order to review IP License compliance. When you +1 a release this is > > something that PMC members must check. This is more important to get > > correct than the code quality. >
This is an interesting statement, I have never been presented with a ratscan output even though I was PMC member when we voted for both 4.0 and 4.0.1. I highly agree that ratscan is important, but I cannot find the output in svn, would it not be a natural place to have it together with the release ? > > > > IMO - If you are thinking about auto-build with digital signing then the > > ratscan must pass before signed artifacts are generated. It is not > required > > to make a nightly build. > > > > For this thread we are only discussing the parts of our svn tree that we > > release. [1] > > > > Best Regards, > > Dave > > > > [1] There is an inactive flame (and let's leave it that way please) about > > the parts of the Symphony contribution that are yet to be moved into > active > > development. > > > > There seems to be a ratscan run against trunk nightly -- see the link on: > > http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ > > I don't know who set this up or any details though. Could be the target Jan > is referring to is used in this. > > thanks for the reference, as far as I can see this run does not use the makefiles, but I will check up on this. I have verified its not run in our normal nightly run, which basically do a "build --all" rgds jan I. > > > > > > > > > rgds > > > jan I. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, > Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” > -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >
