[RAT-66] Ignore the release.properties file created by maven-release-plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Component/s: Client - maven
• Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann
• Reporter: Jukka Zitting
• Created: 13/Oct/09 14:08
• Updated: 12/Dec/24 12:36
• Resolved: 13/Jul/10 16:26

Description

When RAT checks are being run by the Maven release plugin as a part of the forked "mvn clean verify" lifecycle within release:prepare, an extra "release.properties" file is included in the project root.

This file currently causes the RAT check to fail unless it has been explicitly excluded from the check. This is annoying as you typically only detect the missing exclude rule when you're already preparing a release.

It would be nice if RAT could automatically detect and ignore this release.properties file.