+1 for TLD My reason: > No suitable TLP exists which is build system and language agnostic.
And I think RAT is an attractive, little project. With time, it will become very useful to others. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rat is (now) one of the oldest podlings, and has an unusually high > proportion of experience Apache contributors. The community and code > are small (perhaps too small) for a top level project (TLP). > > Rat tools conceptually run downstream from the build in the continuous > delivery space, assisting comprehension and verification of assembled > source and binary artifacts but. It is natural also to include > bindings for various build systems (to catch problems early) and > generative repair tools within scope. No suitable TLP exists which is > build system and language agnostic. > > So Rat is in limbo. > > There seems to be quite a number of existing unsatisfied related use > cases eg [1][2] here at Apache. I suspect that with the arrival of > OOo, automation is going to become essential and new tools will need > to be developed in a variety of languages. > > In the podling, there is now a rough consensus that graduating to a > new TLP would be the right path. Though the community is currently > small, it could act as a seed for efforts to address these problems > and grow as a home for these tools. > > But before we start to draw up more detailed proposals, I'd like to > take some soundings... > > Opinions? > > Robert > > [1] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-rat-dev/201106.mbox/%3CBANLkTikiWPDsipDV9wCG8bGFnW=qwbw...@mail.gmail.com%3E > [2] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201107.mbox/%3c4e2f098b.7080...@schor.com%3E > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- http://www.grobmeier.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
