[HBASE-5363] Automatically run rat check on mvn release builds

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.5, 0.92.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.6, 0.92.1, 0.94.0
• Component/s: build
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jonathan Hsieh
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 09/Feb/12 16:44
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 05:34
• Resolved: 11/Feb/12 22:13

Description

Some of the recent hbase release failed rat checks (mvn rat:check). We should add checks likely in the mvn package phase so that this becomes a non-issue in the future.

Here's an example from Whirr:
https://github.com/apache/whirr/blob/trunk/pom.xml line 388 for an example.