Janne Jalkanen schrieb: >> very much agreed and I guess if one can show a migration path (as I >> have suggested) which doesn't break too much, then I think nobody >> should mind renaming the packages. >> >> But with the ASF member hat on I think the package org.apache.* is >> something which the ASF should protect, just as the logo and the >> brand name itself resp. add a policy to the incubation process which >> people have to agree to when entering the incubation phase. > > With respect to JSPWiki, we would have an interesting situation: Our > last release, 2.6.0, which is LGPL, is in the "com.ecyrd.jspwiki" > package, and we have dozens and dozens of modules which are depending > on it. In fact, our structure is such that we encourage people do > develop their own plugin modules rather than do anything else. There > are plenty of these contributed at jspwiki.org, and probably a lot > more plugins inside companies which are not available to us. > > With 2.8, we are just planning to take the 2.6, and make an Apachified > version of it in the incubation process. No real functionality > change, just minor upgrades and fixes, and get an Apache-licensed > version out as quickly as possible. > > WIth 3.0, we are planning to revamp most of the APIs, and we've been > flagging this as a break point. > > Now, if we, with 2.8, have to change to org.apache.*, we will > obviously break compatibility with any of the existing plugins. Then > again, with 3.0, we will break it again. This will cause some ruckus > in our developer base, and we'd certainly like to keep the 2.8 as > compatible to 3.0 as possible, that is, keep using the > com.ecyrd.jspwiki package throughout the 2.8 phase and move to > org.apache together with the API break in 3.0. > > Any advice or policies?
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