Before renaming the packages, one of the devs should go through the JIRAs and apply the patches that are safe and non-controversial (at least https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KI-42 comes to mind). Later, it's going to be more work for everybody.
Kalle On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > David Jencks wrote: > >> >> On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Les Hazlewood wrote: >> >> I think it would be smart to change from org.jsecurity.* to >>> org.apache.ki.* >>> only immediately before our first Apache release. This allows our >>> existing >>> user community to avoid changing source code dependencies until >>> absolutely >>> necessary. >>> >>> I'm recommending this because there are a few people that regularly build >>> snapshots for trunk for integration testing (Grails plugin, et. al), and >>> I'd >>> like to avoid any headache for them until absolutely required. >>> >>> Would this be ok? Any objections? What does everyone think? >>> >> >> I'm inclined to think that changing the package names will result in a >> great deal of breakage all over the place and doing it as soon as possible >> is more likely to result in a working first release. >> > Yeah, I share David vision... Recalls me the last time I differed a dentist > appointment :/ > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
