Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-09 Thread sebb
On 9 March 2012 05:42, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Leo, are you out there? Hmm? Oh, this again... Having company

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Doug Cutting
On 03/07/2012 11:31 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: Not trying to beat a dead horse to death here but I'm starting to think that we might have had some basis to these package namespace issues. The recent private Lucene-Commons threads show what can happen if this policy is that hmmm liberal. Don't

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On 03/07/2012 11:31 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: Not trying to beat a dead horse to death here but I'm starting to think that we might have had some basis to these package namespace issues. The recent private

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On 03/07/2012 11:31 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: Not trying to beat a dead horse to death here but I'm starting to think that we might have had some basis

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-08 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Doug Cutting cutt...@apache.org wrote: On 03/07/2012 11:31 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: Not trying to beat a dead

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-03-07 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Leo, are you out there? Hmm? Oh, this again... Having company names or trademarks in java namespaces is a pretty stupid convention. It gets

[DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest that we take this from a Sqoop instance to be a discussion on rules them selves. I would like to start a [VOTE] about whether it is a *must* for podlings to rename all packages before being a TLP or not over keeping the old package

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Yes I did, and thanks for clarification :), and please read my as well :). Thanks. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Struberg
: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator) Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what is imposed on TLPs. Please

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator) Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: strictly -1 for forcing a name change on graduation. Maybe we have some confusion here. No one is talking about changing the name of the podling. The discussion pertains to the presence of com.cloudera packages in the

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what is imposed on TLPs. Please see my response in the original thread. You need a

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Ian Dickinson
On 29/02/12 10:02, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest that we take this from a Sqoop instance to be a discussion on rules them selves. I would like to start a [VOTE] about whether it is a *must* for podlings to rename all packages before

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what is

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din nour.moham...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what is

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:45 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: ... OK do we have the right to create any kind of package or class under com.cloudera (or any other companies packages)? I'd like to approach it by answering this question. Because if we look at it like this then we'll

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi... On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't think it's a good question. I think that it is typical of the sort of hypothetical question which leads to heaps of scorn from Sam. I can imagine circumstances where it would make some sense, and some cases where it would be evidence of a serious problem in a TLP. The Foundation is

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 29, 2012 8:34 AM, Ian Dickinson i...@epimorphics.com wrote: On 29/02/12 10:02, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest that we take this from a Sqoop instance to be a discussion on rules them selves. I would like to start a [VOTE]

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 29, 2012 8:45 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: ... OK do we have the right to create any kind of package or class under com.cloudera (or any other companies packages)? I'd like to approach it

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think it's a good question. I think that it is typical of the sort of hypothetical question which leads to heaps of scorn from Sam. Please! Don't invoke Sam :). Jokes aside take a look the my last two posts

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Kulp
As another point of reference, there is at least one case I'm aware of where we HAD to put some code developed at Apache into non-org.apache namespace in order for the code to work. This was taken up on legal discuss and, at the time, no issues about doing so were raised. See:

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: The discussion pertains to the presence of com.cloudera packages in the source code of a podling for the sake of backwards compatibility with Cloudera products. Alex this is an incorrect summary of the facts, similar

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org wrote: As another point of reference, there is at least one case I'm aware of where we HAD to put some code developed at Apache into non-org.apache namespace in order for the code to work. This was taken up on legal discuss

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Struberg
gst...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator) On Feb 29, 2012 8:34 AM, Ian Dickinson i...@epimorphics.com

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Patrick Hunt ph...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: The discussion pertains to the presence of com.cloudera packages in the source code of a podling for the sake of backwards compatibility with

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Patrick Hunt
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Patrick Hunt ph...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Alex Karasulu akaras...@apache.org Sqoop was ASL licensed and had an open following long before it was accepted

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Stein
] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator) On Feb 29, 2012 8:34 AM, Ian Dickinson i...@epimorphics.com wrote: On 29/02/12 10:02, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest

Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)

2012-02-29 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Leo, are you out there? Hmm? Oh, this again... Having company names or trademarks in java namespaces is a pretty stupid convention. It gets us mess like this... There is no policy that incubating java projects must