On 01/06/12 05:26, Marshall Schor wrote: > > > 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.
The sooner you do this, the less painful it will be. For me it would be a requirement for the first release. Rebranding might be the only thing you do for a first release. --Thilo > > 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 >>
