Leave it datafu. The normal way of doing Java namespaces is terrible bloat, and the change would be breaking.
On Friday, August 7, 2015, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Hayes < > matthew.terence.ha...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Roman Shaposhnik suggested I open a discussion on the following topic: > > > > For Apache DataFu, all of the Java classes are declared in a datafu.* > > namespace. This has been the naming convention since the DataFu project > > started in 2010. Since DataFu became part of the Apache incubation > > process, the topic has come up of moving all of the classes into a > > org.apache.datafu.* namespace. This was first discussed in January 2014 > > (see DATAFU-7) and most recently again in the past couple weeks. The > > consensus at the time last year was that it would be a huge pain for > users > > and not worth the cost. It would break any script out there currently > > using DataFu. Also Jakob Homan and Russell Journey pointed out that this > > is just a convention and not all Apache projects follow it. Since we > would > > like DataFu to graduate sometime soon it would be good to clarify what > the > > requirements are on package naming conventions before we do a release. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > Current statement on Incubator website > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#repackaging > > But, if DataFu will do the repackaging, better sooner (before graduation) > then later. > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome.com
