By that notion, practically all incoming projects would be in non org.apache namespaces, and that would be a different kind of detrimental situation.
So, my(!) general recommendation has been; for any releases that maintain 100% compatibility, keep the namespace as before. But as soon as a major (1.x -> 2.0) release is made, that the namespace is changing with it. Doing a search/replace for "s/import datafu/import org.apache.datafu" across N files (and you can provide the script) is not a big deal compared to whatever other compatibility-breaking changes that are introduced in the major upgrade. But as Luciano says; The sooner, the better, as fewer people are impacted. Niclas On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Russell Jurney <russell.jur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Leave it datafu. The normal way of doing Java namespaces is terrible bloat, > and the change would be breaking. > > On Friday, August 7, 2015, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Hayes < > > matthew.terence.ha...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Roman Shaposhnik suggested I open a discussion on the following topic: > > > > > > For Apache DataFu, all of the Java classes are declared in a datafu.* > > > namespace. This has been the naming convention since the DataFu > project > > > started in 2010. Since DataFu became part of the Apache incubation > > > process, the topic has come up of moving all of the classes into a > > > org.apache.datafu.* namespace. This was first discussed in January > 2014 > > > (see DATAFU-7) and most recently again in the past couple weeks. The > > > consensus at the time last year was that it would be a huge pain for > > users > > > and not worth the cost. It would break any script out there currently > > > using DataFu. Also Jakob Homan and Russell Journey pointed out that > this > > > is just a convention and not all Apache projects follow it. Since we > > would > > > like DataFu to graduate sometime soon it would be good to clarify what > > the > > > requirements are on package naming conventions before we do a release. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Matt > > > > > > > Current statement on Incubator website > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#repackaging > > > > But, if DataFu will do the repackaging, better sooner (before graduation) > > then later. > > > > > > -- > > Luciano Resende > > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > > > > -- > Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com > datasyndrome.com > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
