Hi Justin
Right now, I updated our rat exclude config as following, is this allowed? The concern may about JSON file for our test cases data and frontend/UI dependency descriptions, but JSON format is not allowed to add the header. <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId> <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId> <version>0.12</version> <configuration> <excludes> <exclude>**/target/**</exclude> <exclude>**/DISCLAIMER</exclude> <exclude>**/licenses/**</exclude> <exclude>**/codeStyle.xml</exclude> <!-- IDE files --> <exclude>**/*.iml</exclude> <exclude>**/.idea/**</exclude> <exclude>**/*.classpath</exclude> <exclude>**/.project</exclude> <exclude>**/.settings/**</exclude> <exclude>**/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</exclude> <!-- UI IDE configs --> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/.editorconfig</exclude> <!-- UI Compiler configs --> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/.webpackrc.js</exclude> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/.roadhogrc.mock.js</exclude> <!-- UI style check files --> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/.eslintrc</exclude> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/.stylelintrc</exclude> <!-- git files --> <exclude>**/.gitignore</exclude> <exclude>**/.gitmodules</exclude> <exclude>**/.git/**</exclude> <!-- CI files --> <exclude>**/.travis.yml</exclude> <!-- GitHub files --> <exclude>**/.github/**</exclude> <!-- document files --> <exclude>**/*.md</exclude> <excldue>**/*.MD</excldue> <exclude>**/*.txt</exclude> <exclude>**/docs/**</exclude> <!-- Test cases data in JSON format --> <exclude>**/src/test/resources/json/*.json</exclude> <!-- front end libary and generated files --> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/node_modules/**</exclude> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/node/**</exclude> <exclude>**/skywalking-ui/dist/**</exclude> <!-- web UI dependencies descriptions --> <exclude>skywalking-ui/package.json</exclude> <exclude>skywalking-ui/package-lock.json</exclude> </excludes> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <phase>verify</phase> <goals> <goal>check</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> ------------------ Sheng Wu Apache SkyWalking original creator and PPMC member ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Justin Mclean"<jus...@classsoftware.com>; Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2018 10:48 AM To: "general"<general@incubator.apache.org>; Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache SkyWalking (incubating) version 5.0.0-alpha(2nd round) Hi, Perhaps a silly question but I notice several people say they used rat to check this release. Rat clearly shows the jars, does rat need to flag these in a more serious way or were they hidden by a too wide rat exclusion file? Thanks, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org