On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > Ryan King wrote: >> >> We should reserve some space, like avro.*, rather than having to do it >> one at a time. > > +1 This sounds like a good idea. > > Questions: > - Should we rename all existing keywords to this namespace? My vote is > yes, now is the time to do this. > - Should the namespace be "avro.*" or "org.apache.avro.*"? The > fully-qualified name would be more consistent with Avro schema and protocol > namespaces, but it might prove awkward should Avro ever become a standard > independent of the ASF's implementation. As a vaguely related example, I > expect that Avro will become a top-level project at Apache this year, and am > pleased that our Java implementation is already in org.apache.avro, not > org.apache.hadoop.avro. I think we should thus try to keep the format > specification independent of the ASF, and use "avro.*" here.
Java has java.lang, we can have just avro. -ryan
