On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:09 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 June 2011 03:38, Rahul Akolkar <rahul.akol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> After reasonable support to the idea on Jakarta and Commons lists, >> this is a vote to move BCEL and JCS to Apache Commons. >> >> As part of the move, I'll nominate any active committers for Commons >> karma (so far: dbrosius, asmuts, tv -- anyone else, please ping this >> thread). >> >> Since neither may have enough PMC members active, this vote will be >> held by lazy consensus. If you object to moving either/both, please >> also provide a reason and an alternative course of action. >> >> Vote runs for 72 hours. Vote is being held on general@jao but is being >> cross-posted to ensure we reach the full audience. > > I've not looked at JCS; I've done a bit of tinkering on BCEL. > > +1 to moving them. > > But I hope the move won't *require* the package names to be changed to > o.a.commons. > Likewise Maven ids. > > If later on it proves necessary to make an incompatible API change, > that would be the point to change package names. > > But I think users would be understandably upset if the package or > Maven name was changed unnecessarily, and I will vote -1 against any > such change. > <snip/>
I agree. There is precedent for not changing package names when things move to Commons, so I think most also agree with your thinking above. -Rahul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@jakarta.apache.org
