The license we recommend people to use in our CONTRIBUTING.md is approved by legal.
On 18 Feb 2013, at 20:48, Sande Gilda <sgilda(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Is there a version of the license that has been approved by legal?
For
example, I noticed some of these have a year, some have a variable
'${year}, and some have no year.
On 02/18/2013 03:20 PM, Jason Porter wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rafael Benevides" <benevides(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "jdf-dev" <jdf-dev(a)lists.jboss.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:56:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [jdf-dev] Quickstarts and Tooling Automation - License Header
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> The License Header check is on the way. But I have some thoughts that
>> I would like to share and ask your opinion.
>>
>> - I'm using the Checkstyle API to verify for the License Header. Even
>> using RegexpHeader, the check is made line by line. " Checks the
>> header of a source file against a header that contains a regular
>> expression for each line of the source header." (
>>
http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_header.html )
> Gotta ask why you're using the regexp version and not the file version. I've
found the regexp one to be a pain to maintain long term, but I suppose it *can* less
restrictive based on how you craft your rexegp.
>
>> - We instruct the users to use some specific headers:
>>
http://www.jboss.org/jdf/quickstarts/get-involved/
>>
>> - We also instructs the users to use the following ide
>> templates/format but these templates differ from what we propose:
>>
https://github.com/jboss/ide-config/blob/master/eclipse/jboss-java-templa...
>>
>> - Some quickstarts comming from other repos have their header
>> modified like on this commit:
>>
https://github.com/jboss-jdf/jboss-as-quickstart/commit/605d877b38f280a32...
> Personally if we're seeing changes like this with a license I'd flag it and
get it fixed.
>
>> So I ask you what should be better to use on the quickstarts tools ?
>>
>> 1 - Make IDE/JDF Site similar and refactor all non-compliant
>> quickstarts? (Inflexible)
>>
>> 2 - Use another plugin
http://code.google.com/p/maven-license-plugin/
>> that has the feature to include many distinguished and valid headers
>> (Less restrictive)
>>
>> 3 - Manually check if the first lines of the file contains the
>> following patterns: "JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source" and
>> "Licensed under the Apache License" (Almost without restrictions on
>> format)
>>
>> Until what point should we be too restrictive or not for this
>> checking ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Em 14/02/13 18:25, Rafael Benevides escreveu:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> JDF is growing each day. As a consequence, keep the quickstarts
>> consistent is becoming a hard work.
>>
>> To mitigate this and help the maintenance of the quickstart and also
>> to help the contributors to see if their quickstarts are ready to
>> review, we are planning and starting the development of a tooling
>> for quickstart automation.
>>
>> This tool will make use of some other well know and opensource
>> projects like PMD (
pmd.sf.net), checkstyke (
checkstyle.sf.net),
>> Maven Enforcer plugin, etc to attend the following requirements:
>>
>>
>>
>> * Validating quickstart POM files:
>> * Check for the License header ( checkstyle headers )
>> * Check for proper spacing and Indentation (try checkstyle -
>> whitespace rule and indentation rule )
>> * Check and verify if all quickstarts are using the
>> same/latest BOM versions
>> * Verify is it using the standard properties names (We will
>> provide the standard properties name)
>> * Check for non bom versions (and identify if we should
>> create a new BOM)
>> * Check javascript and css versions
>> * Check for duplicate properties and dependencies
>> * Check the pom.xml elements order
>> * Create scripts to update versions (quickstart, boms, etc)
>> * When a new quickstart is added, if it has a pom.xml file,
>> make sure the <module> is defined in one of the following
>> profiles: default, requires-postgres, complex-dependencies,
>> requires-full, requires-xts, non-maven.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * Validating quickstart README files:
>> * Check for the required metadata tags in README (Level,
>> Author, Target Product, etc)
>> * Verify the quickstart name in the README matches the folder
>> name and the project name
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * Validating quickstart source code
>> * Check the quantity of comments in the code (evaluate PMD )
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * General validation (desired):
>> * If a quickstart with a source other than the current
>> repository is modified, create an alert of some sort so we
>> can notify the upstream repository of the change.
>> * When we update a BOM property version in the quickstarts,
>> we need to make the same changes in the archetypes.
>> * Also, if there is a code fix in the kitchensink or
>> kitchensink-ear, we need to make the same fix in the
>> archetype code and check other quickstarts based on the same
>> archetype to see if they need the fixes applied.
>>
>> If you have some comments, I will be glad to hear you.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Rafael Benevides | Senior Software Engineer
>> Red Hat Brazil
>> +55-61-9269-6576
>>
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