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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Future For Rat...?
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:01:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4DF863D8.3030407@apache.org> (Robert Burrell Donkin's message of
	"Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:48:40 +0100")
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On 2011-06-15, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

> (My recovery has progressed, and I have now enough computer time -
> around 4 hours per day but not continuous - to start some coding and
> Apache stuff again :-)

Good to hear that.

> 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.

> TLP? Opinions?

> And how close is Rat to being able to graduate?

Rat has been in bugfix-only (if anything at all) mode for quite some
time now and to me it oscilates between being ready to graduate and
being ready to go to the Attic.

Stefan