OK, thanks guys for your feedback. It was a more "open question" to give more "consistency" (like other projects did, Arrow, Parquet, etc). But definitely not strongly required :)
Let's skip this one for now. Regards JB On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM Daniel Weeks <dwe...@apache.org> wrote: > > I'm not in favor of the rename at this point. > > This just seems unnecessary and since the java implementation is the > reference implementation I don't think there's real confusion caused by > leaving the repo as it is. > > I know this has been done in other projects like `parquet-mr` -> > `parquet-java`, but that was more due to the `mr` designation being confusing > and obsolete. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I generally dislike renames unless we are going to get some tangible benefit >> out of it. Consistency >> is never something I really care that much about in repository names since >> no one is really using >> those on a daily basis and they aren't really used programmatically. >> >> If we did do this rename would we be breaking all old hyper links to the >> repo? If so, I think I'd say I'm a -1. I also >> find it more confusing in projects where this has happened and the >> repository is retained for old >> links but the README just says, go to XXXX instead. >> >> All that said, I think iceberg-java is the right name of the java impl and >> the spec should probably be split >> into another repo. But that's what I would have done with perfect foresight >> before we got to the current state. >> >> So depending on the impact to existing links and references I'm between a -1 >> and +0. >> >> Things that would convince me to be a +1 >> >> Frequency of how often the single repository is confusing to folks, and does >> this affect them on a daily basis? >> Would we be able to route all requests to the old repository automatically >> to the new one? >> Would impacts on current developers be minimal? How many dev setups need to >> be changed for this to work? >> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I know it's not an easy one, but I would like to start this discussion :) >>> >>> We now have several repositories: >>> - iceberg-cpp >>> - iceberg-go >>> - iceberg-python >>> - iceberg-rust >>> >>> To be consistent, what about renaming iceberg to iceberg-java ? >>> >>> I know it's not only Java (it's also specs and site), but it would be >>> clearer, especially for contributors and the community. >>> >>> Thoughts ? >>> >>> Regards >>> JB
