Hi Myrle,

I've just updated copyright information in fineract-cn-lang and created a
new pull request <https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-lang/pull/4>.

I patiently await your review and possible merger.

At Your Service,
Isaac Kamga.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Isaac Kamga <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Myrle,
>
> Thanks a million for your advice and guidance on this.
>
> I've closed the Pull Request, will do appropriate changes and send in
> another for review.
>
> At Your Service,
> Isaac Kamga.
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Isaac,
>>
>> Replies inline:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Isaac Kamga <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I have just updated the copyright information and package name on the
>> > fineract-cn-lang repository and sent in another pull request
>> > <https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-lang/pull/3> for review.
>>
>> Please make a pull request with *just* the copyright information
>> adjusted.  Changing package names is a backwards incompatible change.
>> By changing them, you break everything that depends on lang.  And all
>> of the other fineract cn repositories depend on lang.  Package names
>> will have to be changed in all the repositories at once.
>>
>> We will have to continue to be careful about backwards compatible
>> changes until we have three things:
>> * signature checking
>> * our artifacts in an artifactory
>> * an established process of incrementing versions.
>>
>> Because changing package names is a global change and changing
>> copyright information can be done locally, one repository at a time, I
>> believe we should adjust the copyright information first.
>>
>> > On a related note, I'd like to ask experienced developers on Fineract
>> CN if
>> > it would be necessary to change the project's name ( from *lang* to
>> > *fineract-cn-lang* ) in the settings.gradle
>> > <https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-lang/blob/develop/set
>> tings.gradle>
>> > file.
>>
>> I don't see any reason to change those names.  the project's name is
>> appended to the artifact id.  If we did this, the artifact id in this
>> case would be org.apache.fineract.cn.fineract-cn-lang.  It would
>> contain duplicated information.  Of course we could adjust the build
>> elsewhere to change the artifact id back to lang.  But i don't see a
>> benefit in changing the project name.
>>
>> But perhaps I'm missing something here?
>>
>> > Also, in the bintray.pkg section of the build.gradle file
>> > <https://github.com/apache/fineract-cn-lang/blob/develop/build.gradle>,
>> > should the `repo` , `userOrg` and `vcsUrl` variables be changed too ?
>> These
>> > will help with subsequent updates to fineract-cn-api,
>> > fineract-cn-cassandra, etc.
>>
>> Oops!  Good catch.  We can delete the bintray section in that
>> build.gradlel file until we're ready to introduce the use of the
>> apache artifactory.  I don't think you'll find a section like that in
>> any other fineract cn project.  I was experimenting there.
>>
>> Thank you for taking this on Isaac,
>> Myrle
>>
>
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