[CALCITE-746] Allow apache-rat to be run outside of release process

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Assignee: Julian Hyde
• Reporter: Julian Hyde
• Created: 30/May/15 22:58
• Updated: 12/Jun/16 07:44
• Resolved: 22/Mar/16 04:46

Description

In http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201505.mbox/%3C55654545.4090202%40apache.org%3E Brane wrote:

 RAT emits warnings:

Files with unapproved licenses:

  ./git.properties
  ./avatica/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
  ./core/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
  ./example/csv/src/test/resources/bug/DATE.csv
  ./example/csv/src/test/resources/bug/WACKY_COLUMN_NAMES.csv
  ./example/csv/src/test/resources/bug/archers.json
  ./example/csv/src/test/resources/sales/DEPTS.csv

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Archives:
 + ./example/csv/src/test/resources/sales/EMPS.csv.gz

These are clearly false positives, and I see that the pom.xml file
contains exclusions for these files. I suggest also providing a
rat-excludes file with the same exclusion rules, so that RAT can be run
on the tree without going through maven (and trusting the pom.xml :).

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-1493 Apache RAT excludes don't work with file path (instead of file name)
• is related to: RAT-161 Support exclusion of paths: "path/to/file.ext"