[ACCUMULO-2986] Ease interaction with rat plugin for new contributors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sean Busbey
• Created: 10/Jul/14 07:41
• Updated: 04/Oct/14 18:32
• Resolved: 11/Aug/14 14:37

Description

Per the thread on our use of the rat plugin to validate licenses, ease the impact of rat on new contributors but make sure we can enforce things early and often.

• move plugin to profile (default to active)
• set ignoreErrors to true
• make sure jenkins can fail the build for rat violations
• update docs on handling contributions to check for rat violations
• provide instructions for committers to make their builds always fail for rat violations

Issue Links

• relates to: ACCUMULO-3205 JCEKS files sometimes aren't detected as binary; they should be excluded from RAT.
• links to: reviewboard