Hi all! Recently, I've been digging through various OSS compliance checkers that analyze the code and content of repository to make sure it passes some predefined OSS policy. I realized while working on Apache Annotator (incubating) that one of these tools in particular could benefit any ASF project.
The project is called repolinter by the TODO Group: https://github.com/todogroup/repolinter It checks for various things like the existence of a LICENSE file, the proper use of header/preamble text in files, and various other things. I've customized the default configuration file so that repolinter's checks are a bit closer to what ASF project repos actually need to do. You can grab the config file here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/pull/56/files#diff-8e21d68a689b722dca7791aa735b873c If you put that in an existing project's code, you can `npm install -g repolinter`, and `repolinter .` in that projects directory to see the results of the output. What I'm finding already is that most ASF projects I've checked so far are using the "general purpose" preamble: https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#Apply-My-Software And not the ASF focused (required?) one: https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers You can read through more of the changes pending on Apache Annotator's repository to bring it into (better) compliance: https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/pull/56 I'd be happy to help get this config file added to some official ASF repository or wiki space, so that others can benefit from this handy tool. :) Cheers! Benjamin -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
