On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Leo, are you out there?
Hmm? Oh, this again... Having company names or trademarks in java namespaces is a pretty stupid convention. It gets us mess like this... There is no policy that incubating java projects must rename to use an org.apache namespace. There has never been such a policy. We don't need such a policy. There's (typically/usually/knock on wood) no legal/trademark issue. There's ample precedent of keeping 'legacy' namespaces around 'a while' for backwards compatibility. And that's fine. At the same time, (incubating) projects should definitely carefully consider whether it is reasonable to change their namespaces, how to go about it, etc. Incubation can be a good time and/or trigger to make such changes, especially for projects for whom backwards compatibility isn't a big issue (yet) or that are doing a major revision as part of coming here. With my incubator PMC hat on, I like to see that a project community has thought this situation through, discussed it on their dev list, and got to some kind of consensus on what to do. I'd imagine such plans will include a strategy for eventually having all their code end up in an org.apache namespace or at least not in a com.<company> namespace. I'm sure other people said all this already, apologies for the noise, but hey, I got prodded, so... :-) cheerio, Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
