> While your solution is the easiest one, undeniably, of course, it > seems to disregard the existing user base. Some of them are other > Apache projects too. I think that we are beyond this and we want to > have it re-usable by other projects too. Right now we're a pure consumer of the lib. If we brought it in-tree and published artifacts from our source, we'd be becoming maintainers of the lib which is a Big Change.
I don't think we're ready to sign up for that tbh and I'm weakly against it. So that leaves a) copying code in-tree, or b) submodule. On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, at 11:58 AM, Štefan Miklošovič wrote: > While your solution is the easiest one, undeniably, of course, it > seems to disregard the existing user base. Some of them are other > Apache projects too. I think that we are beyond this and we want to > have it re-usable by other projects too.
