On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Stefano Bagnara <apa...@bago.org> wrote: > 2011/10/12 Ioan Eugen Stan <stan.ieu...@gmail.com>: >>> One more ... >>> >>> Can or should we find a more consistent naming for the produced artifacts? >>> Look the prefixes at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/james/ >>> - apache-james >>> - apache >>> - james >>> - maven >>> - none >> >> Very good point Felix, I agree that we should adopt a constant naming >> convention. >> >> I think we can skip Apache from the artifact name, because they apear >> in the group ID. We can keep the name in the parts intended for users >> (site, documentation, etc.). I will probably have time for this and >> pom in refactoring the weekend.
Please be aware that changing artifact names impacts downstream users. Consider carefully before annoying them :-) > I just want to point out that in past we added some "apache-" prefix > around in order to have better trademark protection from ASF (apache > is a trademark, james, mime4j, imap are not trademarks). I'm not sure it's wise to put it quite like that. Historically, one of the motivations behind prefixing all releases (with "apache-" say) arose from the improved trademark protection gained. Pragmatically, any jar not prefixed with one of our marks (whether "apache-" or some other) ATM requires some extra manual verification when verifying that we have rights to ship the jar. > After years I still don't have a good understanding about this stuff, > so maybe you want to read some documents from the asf website http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ > or wait some comment from Robert before taking any step. As I've recently learnt, trademarks are tricky and any interpretations ("apache is a trademark, james, mime4j, imap are not trademarks") are best avoided on public lists. Apache lists "Apache James" and "James" as marks[1] Robert [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
