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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:09:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: moving rat to a profile?
From: Billie Rinaldi <billie.rinaldi@gmail.com>
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I'm not thrilled about turning it off by default.  How about putting it in
a profile that would be enabled by default, but could be disabled with a
flag for those who don't understand why it's failing?


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Sean Busbey <busbey@cloudera.com> wrote:

> I've had a few different new-to-Accumulo contributors recently run into the
> issue of Rat failing the build after changing branches.
>
> I know we already have a warning about this[1], but AFAICT it's over the
> threshold for consumable information.
>
> Even after pointing people to the warning, the existing workaround tripped
> up atleast one of them. Despite the warning about using "git clean," the
> destruction of their local IDE changes were surprising.
>
> For contributions to Accumulo that aren't coming from committers, the Rat
> plugin seems much more likely to give a false positive than to catch an
> error. Additionally, whatever committer is reviewing the contribution
> should be checking for license compliance anyways.
>
> In the interests of reducing the surprise for new contributors, I'd like to
> move our use of Rat to a profile that is only default enabled during a
> release run.
>
> The profile would still let those who want rat to run on every build to
> enable it and we could update the guide for handling new contributions to
> say committers should enable the rat profile to help guard against errors.
>
> Any objections?
>
> [1]: http://accumulo.apache.org/source.html#running-a-build
>
> --
> Sean
>

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