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RAT started incubation as a Java library that scans files for known licenses and reports files that lack any of them. By now more tools that help collecting, aggregating and validating licenses have been added. After some soul-searching the RAT community is preparing to vote on graduating as a TLP under the name Creadur. The voting process is not likely to complete in time for the next board meeting, though. Signed off by mentor:
A suite of tools focusing on the comprehension and auditing of
software distributions. Entered incubation 2008-01-06
Community:
* Added David Blevins as a new committer.
* Various new people are making contributions.
* Issue tracker and mail lists are attended to.
Project:
* 15 November 2011 - apache-rat-incubating-0.8 released.
* Improved the download facility.
* Initial contributions of a new tool, Tentacles, to download all the
archives from a staging repo, unpack them and create a little report of
what is there.
* Commenced improvement of branding.
Current and next steps:
* In process of choosing a suitable project name.
* In process of deciding project scope and description.
* Commenced the search for a project chair.
Issues before graduation:
None. We seem to be getting there.
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Rave
Apache Rave is a new web and social mashup engine. It will provide an
out-of-the-box as well as an extendible lightweight Java platform to host,
serve and aggregate (Open)Social Gadgets, W3C Widgets and services through a
highly customizable and Web 2.0 friendly front-end.
Rave entered incubation on 2011-03-01.
Current Status:
* Releases
* Two additional releases (0.4-incubating & 0.5-incubating) have been
released since the last report
* A 0.6-incubating release is currently being voted on on the dev list
* Community Growth
* Rave committers & PPMC members have attended multiple events to meet
and engage additional community members
* The ApacheCon Rave meetup & hackathon were well attended
* The Rave community is actively engaging projects that are building on
or leveraging Rave
* Jasha Joachimsthal was voted in as a new PPMC member in November
* Sean Cooper was voted in as a new committer and PPMC member in
November
* Dev mailing list is saw increased traffic from new users/contributors
* A community request (Sakai project) for a git mirror was honored:
Rave is now also available from git.apache.org/rave.git
* General
* A preliminary integration with Apache Wookie is now provided with the
0.6-incubation release (pending), full integration (bundling Wookie) is
slated for the next release
* The commit rate remains high (~75 commits / month)
* Website documentation is steadily improved and extended
* A presentation about Rave, focusing on Apache, community and
collaboration, was given by Matt Franklin and Ate Douma at ApacheCon 2011
November 11th
Next steps:
* Continue to build up awareness of Rave and grow the community
* Further collaboration and coordination with Shindig and Wookie
* Further modularize Rave to support extending and customizing for end
users/developers
* Keep up the pace for the monthly release schedule, working towards a
0.7-incubating release by end December 2011
Issues before graduation:
* Complete 1.0 release
* Expand the community/user base
Rat audits releases. A renewed push started to find a final status for Rat. A consensus emerged that the best destination for Rat would be a top level project, even if the scope is broad enough to allow a suite of related products to be developed by the community. Hopefully, Rat will be in a position to graduate soon. Work has started on new code complementing the classic plugins: * Apache Rat Eye assists bulk reviews (coded in Python) * Apache Rat Whisker automates the verification and generation of legal documents (LICENSE, NOTICE, etc) for application composed from many components (coded in Java) The 0.8 release of the classic plugin is expected soon. Trademark, branding and marketing issues remain unresolved. The Incubator guides no longer accord well with developments in ASF policy in this area. It seems appropriate that before graduation these issues should be sorted out, though this may require work to develop incubator policy, which may potentially delay graduation.
Rat audits releases. A renewed push started to find a final status for Rat. A consensus emerged that the best destination for Rat would be a top level project, even if the scope is broad enough to allow a suite of related products to be developed by the community. Hopefully, Rat will be in a position to graduate soon. Work has started on new code complementing the classic plugins: * Apache Rat Eye assists bulk reviews (coded in Python) * Apache Rat Whisker automates the verification and generation of legal documents (LICENSE, NOTICE, etc) for application composed from many components (coded in Java) The 0.8 release of the classic plugin is expected soon. Trademark, branding and marketing issues remain unresolved. The Incubator guides no longer accord well with developments in ASF policy in this area. It seems appropriate that before graduation these issues should be sorted out, though this may require work to develop incubator policy, which may potentially delay graduation.
Rat is (still) a small and mature code base without a clear home at Apache to aim for. Unlike the last two quarters there has been some development activity with commits by four different committers. Some JIRA issues have been opened and not all of them have been addressed by now.
RAT is a Java library that scans files for known licenses and reports files that lack any of them. Three front-ends to said library exist in form of a command line client, an Ant task and a Maven plugin. RAT entered the Incubator in January 2008. Two issues have been opened in JIRA, one has been closed as WONTFIX. No other activities during the past quarter.
RAT is a Java library that scans files for known licenses and reports files that lack any of them. Three frontends to said library exist in form of a command line client, an Ant task and a Maven plugin. RAT entered the Incubator in January 2008. There a has been zero activity in RAT during the last quarter.
RAT is a Java library that scans files for known licenses and reports files that lack any of them. Three front-ends to said library exist in form of a command line client, an Ant task and a Maven plugin. RAT entered the Incubator in January 2008. RAT 0.7 incubating has been released at June 30th. After the release of RAT 0.7 a discussion of what a matching graduation target for RAT could be started. It seems that most users of RAT think a TLP would be the best fit. Development activity on RAT is very low, a total of six people have committed 59 changes in 2010 - only two people performed more than five commits. At least twenty of the total commits were due to the release process of 0.7. Hyrum Wright is working on a Python based reimplementation of RAT's ideas under the name Mouse inside a lab http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/mouse/
No IPMC or Board issues requiring attention. Both the Ant task (RAT-73) and Maven plugin (RAT-74) have been extended to optionally create reports in RAT's XML format rather than plain text. This will not only allow custom styling of the reports but also easy report federations like the one currently created by BuildBot. Discussion for a new release of RAT to make this feature available has started but hasn't come to a conclusion, yet.
No IPMC or Board issues requring attention. RAT remains quiet but steady. A major PITA of the website not building correctly was solved by Brian Fox. Some Jira issues were attended to and patches committed. More and more projects are using RAT for their checks, some adding as a Maven goal before doing a release, others via Buildbot or other CI tools as part of their commit and check process.
A number of patches have been (belatedly) applied and elections of some contributors new to RAT but well known to the ASF are in progress. The issue of final destination would probably be best solved by the creation of a new TLP with a charter slightly wider than just RAT to allow the development of other similar auditing tools useful to the Apache infrastructure.
RAT has been reasonably quiet though the summer of code project has been very active over at Google. Initial enthusiasm for developing crawling capabilities was stalled by the lack of quick progress towards a release by Droids. Progress on graduation is still stalled by the lack of a suitable TLP to home the project. RAT illustrates well the inability of the incubator system to work for existing small but open projects without a nominating TLP. If Apache wants to accept more projects of this nature, some process rethinking is needed.
Rat was accepted into the incubator in November 2007 Rat audits releases. Since the last report: * The first release here at Apache was cut (which drew assistance from lurkers) * The code has been simplified with the aim of making it more accessible to new developers We hope to extend RAT to provide a central way of verifying the status of source code in Incubator projects (and eventually all ASF projects). The hope is that by making it more useful to the wonderful ASF committers we will see RAT becoming more functional. The biggest problem that needs to be resolved before graduation is final destination. To graduate as a top level project, significant numbers of new developers would need to be attracted. This would probably require significant energy to be devoted first into extending it's usefulness beyond Apache-like open source projects then raising it's profile. Conversely, ATM there is no candidate top level project which could home Rat as a sub-project (suggestions welcomed).
After a long quiet period, there seems to have been a definite change of momentum. A major stumbling block has been the absence of released version of the codebase after the move to Apache. Once this has happened, it should be possible to start on some more interesting topics. Preparation of a 0.6 release ongoing (and looking good). Hopefully due in April. The scan code that generates http://incubator.apache.org/audit/ (by auditing the distribution directories) is probably just about good enough for wider distribution and use by other projects at Apache. This will be targeted for release before May. Discussions are ongoing about a Google SoC originating in Harmony but more naturally in scope at RAT Top Issues Before Graduation: 1. ATM RAT is too small for a TLP but not clearly in scope for any existing TLPs 2. Regain momentum
RAT has struggled to gain any additional development community since joining the incubator. The small developer base means that releases are not really possible. Without releases, it's hard to find motivation for development of new functions for - what is - a mature code base. As a component of the Apache and Incubator release infrastructure, it made sense to bring RAT here. From the RAT project perspective, it made much less sense.
Did not report.
Incubating since November 2007. RAT is an auditing tool for automated checking of compliance with ASF requirements (e.g., licensing). * Work has continued on ''scan'' a utility that audits distribution directories on www.apache.org and create reports on any changes. This should be complete soon. * Ross Gardler contributed a significant contribution supporting the optional updating of headers. This is a major improvement over the ad-hoc scripts used in the past. * Work continued rationalising the organisation of the codebase
FAILED TO REPORT
RAT is audit and code comprehension for releases and source. Been very quiet this month. Infrastructure is now mostly setup. Import of RAT main has been completed but the source still need tidying up. Incubating since: October 2007
RAT is auditing and comprehension for source code and binary releases. RAT entered incubation in October 2007 but only in the last few weeks started to setup the required infrastructure. Most of this is now in place and the IP clearance for the code import is being worked upon now.