+1 for removing these entirely. I don't believe they are currently necessary.
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Michael Mior
[email protected]

Le mer. 2 juin 2021 à 06:13, Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> In the recent votes for Calcite [1] and Avatica [2] there were some -1
> votes regarding minified javascript files present in the source releases.
>
> The concerns are raised for the following files:
> site/js/html5shiv.min.js
> site/js/respond.min.js
>
> From discussions in other lists it seems that there are Apache source
> releases including minified files so I don't think we are violating any
> policy by including them but there are deferring opinions on this topic
> [3,4].
>
> To avoid bringing back the discussion to if minified javascript should be
> present or not I would like to propose one of the following alternatives:
>
> 1. It seems that both of the aforementioned scripts [5,6] are used for
> compatibility reasons with old browsers. I think most of the people are not
> using these browsers anymore so I would suggest removing them altogether
> from the code.
>
> 2. If for some reason we need to keep them then we could directly use the
> non minified version. The difference of minified vs unminified for both
> files is ~6KB so I doubt it will have any real impact with the internet
> connections that we use nowadays.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best,
> Stamatis
>
> [1]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r049cf5b953eb5824ba37df21094dd7c1e92146d659db4735ad121593%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E
> [2]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r074720fc062bde09a7e69dc77f77754c7fd4c22f1357514f6b2196d0%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E
> [3]
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcddc30dd1f0c7f20709e09de7202d4d6885d6235a7fce1c1ab46e4ed%40%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E
> [4]
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201805.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
> [5] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond
> [6] https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv

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