+0 to remove them entirely, if that is possible. -1 to keep in git but remove from source releases. We are already in compliance with Apache policy, best I can tell.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:08 PM Haisheng Yuan <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 for removing them entirely. > > Thanks, > Haisheng Yuan > > On 2021/06/02 13:36:05, Alessandro Solimando <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > +1 for removing them as well, all the mentioned sw versions in [5,6] > > are extremely, extremely old. > > > > Best regards, > > Alessandro > > > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 14:38, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > +1 for removing these entirely. I don't believe they are currently > > > necessary. > > > -- > > > Michael Mior > > > [email protected] > > > > > > Le mer. 2 juin 2021 à 06:13, Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> a > > > écrit : > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > In the recent votes for Calcite [1] and Avatica [2] there were some -1 > > > > votes regarding minified javascript files present in the source > > > > releases. > > > > > > > > The concerns are raised for the following files: > > > > site/js/html5shiv.min.js > > > > site/js/respond.min.js > > > > > > > > From discussions in other lists it seems that there are Apache source > > > > releases including minified files so I don't think we are violating any > > > > policy by including them but there are deferring opinions on this topic > > > > [3,4]. > > > > > > > > To avoid bringing back the discussion to if minified javascript should > > > > be > > > > present or not I would like to propose one of the following > > > > alternatives: > > > > > > > > 1. It seems that both of the aforementioned scripts [5,6] are used for > > > > compatibility reasons with old browsers. I think most of the people are > > > > not > > > > using these browsers anymore so I would suggest removing them altogether > > > > from the code. > > > > > > > > 2. If for some reason we need to keep them then we could directly use > > > > the > > > > non minified version. The difference of minified vs unminified for both > > > > files is ~6KB so I doubt it will have any real impact with the internet > > > > connections that we use nowadays. > > > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Stamatis > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r049cf5b953eb5824ba37df21094dd7c1e92146d659db4735ad121593%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > [2] > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r074720fc062bde09a7e69dc77f77754c7fd4c22f1357514f6b2196d0%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > [3] > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcddc30dd1f0c7f20709e09de7202d4d6885d6235a7fce1c1ab46e4ed%40%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E > > > > [4] > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201805.mbox/%[email protected]%3e > > > > [5] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond > > > > [6] https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv > >
