[KAFKA-2797] Release artifact expects a git repository for the release audit tool (RAT)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Ewen Cheslack-Postava
• Reporter: Flavio Paiva Junqueira
• Reviewer: Gwen Shapira
• Created: 10/Nov/15 16:08
• Updated: 10/Nov/15 18:17
• Resolved: 10/Nov/15 18:17

Description

When running gradle on the RC0 for 0.9, we get an error because the build expects to find a git repo here:

	line 68 of build.gradle: def repo = Grgit.open(project.file('.'))

and we get this error message:

	FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

	* Where:
	Build file 'kafka-0.9.0.0-src/build.gradle' line: 68

	* What went wrong:
	A problem occurred evaluating root project 'kafka-0.9.0.0-src'.
	> repository not found: kafka-0.9.0.0-src

The definitions for rat make sense when working on a git branch, but not for the release artifact. One way around this is to disable rat by commenting out the corresponding lines, but that isn't what the README file says.