Interesting, and you are correct. It seems currently the connector parent specifies `inherited` as false and that means it won't be triggered in child projects. So if the plugin exec is not explicitly overridden in a downstream connector the RAT check won't be executed.
I'll fix this in the parent POM, I am putting together a 2.0.0 release for it anyways. But for this release, yet another RC. :( Thanks, Ferenc On Friday, January 30th, 2026 at 15:22, Robert Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for creating this RC! > > I noticed 5 Java files are missing the required Apache license header: > > 1. SplitsFinishedEventContext.java (main source file) > 2. StreamConsumerRegistrarTest.java > 3. KinesisShardSplitReaderBaseTest.java > 4. FakeKinesisFanOutBehaviorsFactory.java > 5. KinesisStreamsSourceITCase.java > > I suspect the rat plugin is not configured correctly? > > As per my read of https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html, the > license headers are a hard requirement for our releases. > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM Ferenc Csaky [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Please review and vote on release candidate #4 for flink-connector-aws > > v6.0.0, as follows: > > [ ] +1, Approve the release > > [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments) > > > > The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes: > > * JIRA release notes [1], > > * the official Apache source release to be deployed to dist.apache.org > > [2], which are signed with the key with fingerprint 16AE0DDBBB2F380B [3], > > * all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4], > > * source code tag v6.0.0-rc4 [5], > > * website pull request listing the new release [6]. > > * CI build of the tag [7]. > > > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority > > approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes. > > > > Thanks, > > Ferenc > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12355986 > > [2] > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flink/flink-connector-aws-6.0.0-rc4 > > [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/flink/KEYS > > [4] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1882 > > [5] https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/releases/tag/v6.0.0-rc4 > > [6] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/822 > > [7] https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-aws/actions/runs/21513118378
