On 5/31/2012 6:08 PM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
On 05/31/2012 10:02 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
We (uimaFIT developers) would like a transition to Apache to cause minimal
hassle for existing users. If possible, it should be limited to updating the
imports for a new package name and changing a dependency/jar.
Is it a must to change the package names? This will break it
for the existing user base.
It seems not to be a requirement. But there's some evidence in other projects
that didn't do this that it caused some problems down the road.
In the past, we built some auto-fixup tooling for this kind of conversion. See
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/overview_and_setup.html#ugr.project_overview_migrating_from_ibm_uima
; it had tooling to do package renaming, IIRC.
Another thing which is likely required is to change the Maven "group-id" to
org.apache.uima - I think the auto-release tooling might have some dependencies
on this, given Maven's convention-over-configuration orientation.
-Marshall
Jörn
