Great Thanks ! Joe.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote:

> Hi Prashant , rat is still run as part of the release process
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Process (this
> document is going to change in the next day or so for the 0.8.1 release now
> that we moved to Gradle and away from SBT, fyi).... Gradle also has a
> license mechanism too (btw) that we use now in the build script
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.8.1/build.gradle#L30
>
> We removed the bash script to run rat (easy enough to run it by command
> line)... It didn't make sense to have a bash script that is used
> infrequently by a small few for what is a one line of command to run
> anyways... I don't think we are going to need it anymore but I will still
> run it prior to release.
>
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Prashant Sharma <scrapco...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am one of the contributors to Apache Spark and was looking into RAT for
> > catching licensing errors in the codebase. From the git log it is clear
> > KAFKA once had Apache RAT in the build and was later removed. It is not
> > clear what was the alternative taken. This information would be helpful,
> in
> > the sense we can learn from your experience.
> >
> > --
> > Prashant
> >
>



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Prashant

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