(back again from visiting my brother) <snip>
On 06/17/11 14:28, sebb wrote: > On 17 June 2011 14:01, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2011-06-15, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >>> I'm involved with some release and build wrangling over at James (and >>> probably in the OO.o podling as well). I'm likely to need to start on >>> some new tools related to Rat (similar to tools they have over in >>> Lucene-land which might come this way). >> >> What kind of tools are these and how do they relate to Rat? I still >> have difficulties seeing what sort of TLP that could be. > > There are other possible release-related tools. > > For example, checking hashes and sigs. > Checking source archive content against SVN. > Checking jars contain N &L files, and that the manifest has suitable > Specification and/or Implementation entries > > Also, checking SVN properties (eol-style etc). and a few more from me :-) new types of higher level rules * manifest checking rules * dependency checking rules * NOTICE/LICENSE existing within compressed archives binary wrangling * LICENSE and NOTICE generation and verification * support for license compatibility rules * support for non-textual licensing meta-data smart license correction * support for orderly additional licensing bulk comprehension tools suitable for checking large releases * more flexible tools for verifying maven repository releases with large numbers of components * interaction comprehension support for languages other than Java * one particular use case is better integration with subversion hooks * separate concerns about rule logic from document wrangling * curses based GUI for large scale comprehension * integration into make and rake based builds and about tooling for OpenOffice.org Robert
