Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
Torsten Curdt wrote: >>> I feel kind of the opposite -- RAT is an important tool that's required >>> of all the Incubator projects, but pretty widely integrated (at least in >>> Java land) outside of the Incubator as a tool to help check ASF >>> policies. To me, that's a big scope and an important

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < > chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > >> I feel kind of the opposite -- RAT is an important tool that's required of >> all the Incubator projects, but pretty widely integra

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-12 Thread Torsten Curdt
>> I feel kind of the opposite -- RAT is an important tool that's required of >> all the Incubator projects, but pretty widely integrated (at least in Java >> land) outside of the Incubator as a tool to help check ASF policies. To me, >> that's a big scope and an important community, and just based

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-11 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > I feel kind of the opposite -- RAT is an important tool that's required of > all the Incubator projects, but pretty widely integrated (at least in Java > land) outside of the Incubator as a tool to

RE: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Gary Gregory
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bode...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 07:00 > To: gene...@incubator.apache.org; rat-...@incubator.apache.org; > dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: Re: Future of RAT > > On 2010-08-10, Mattma

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > WDYT? I agree with others who've said RAT should consider going TLP. -Rahul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-m

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: Hi Stefan, However, I'm not sure I get the whole reasoning below RE: TLP? Why not have a RAT TLP? The overhead of filing board reports and not knowing anyone on the team that would be able to? Jochen has sure be joking here. Th

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > If > there will ever be a migration to a new license like ASL 3 or a > another change of the header policy, then RAT will likely play a very > important part in the process. There's also an SPDX spec coming to describe the licensing in pro

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:58, ant elder wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) > wrote: > >> However, I'm not sure I get the whole reasoning below RE: TLP? Why not have >> a RAT TLP? The overhead of filing board reports and not knowing anyone on >> the team that wou

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > However, I'm not sure I get the whole reasoning below RE: TLP? Why not have a > RAT TLP? The overhead of filing board reports and not knowing anyone on the > team that would be able to? Hen files them all the time (well he used

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hi Stefan, >> However, I'm not sure I get the whole reasoning below RE: TLP? Why not >> have a RAT TLP? The overhead of filing board reports and not knowing >> anyone on the team that would be able to? > > Jochen has sure be joking here. The team list he pointed at contains at > least two curren

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-08-10, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > However, I'm not sure I get the whole reasoning below RE: TLP? Why not > have a RAT TLP? The overhead of filing board reports and not knowing > anyone on the team that would be able to? Jochen has sure be joking here. The team list he pointed at c

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
ann" wrote: Hi, having just published a release of Apache RAT with the "-incubating" label, I'd though it is time to discuss the future of RAT. RAT is an incubator project since 18 months. It is not an overly busy project: The occasional feature request, which is handled, a

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Kevan Miller
On Aug 10, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > The question is: What's the target? RAT is way too small for an > independent project. And I cannot imagine anybody of the current > committers writing board reports. To me, a Rat TLP is no option. So we > have the second possibility: Put it u

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > Hi, > > having just published a release of Apache RAT with the "-incubating" > label, I'd though it is time to discuss the future of RAT. RAT is an > incubator project since 18 months. It is not an overly

Re: Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
t; having just published a release of Apache RAT with the "-incubating" > label, I'd though it is time to discuss the future of RAT. RAT is an > incubator project since 18 months. It is not an overly busy project: > The occasional feature request, which is handled, a bug repor

Future of RAT

2010-08-10 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, having just published a release of Apache RAT with the "-incubating" label, I'd though it is time to discuss the future of RAT. RAT is an incubator project since 18 months. It is not an overly busy project: The occasional feature request, which is handled, a bug report from ti