For incubator projects, I strongly suggest renames unless there is a compelling counter argument.
I think that many others would make similar suggestions, but doubt that there is explicit policy on this. On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > Thank you all for the feedback. This is super helpful! > > One question that I still have is this: do we have a bias > for suggesting package rename or any package name > can remain in place? > > Thanks, > Roman. > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Jena graduated 2012 with old namespaces under com.hp.hpl.jena, and some > > under org.openjena, with an intention to change at the first major > release > > update. As new packages came along, they went into org.apache.jena but > the > > user facing packages remained where they were. > > > > We released Jena 3.0.0 last month, so 3 years. That major release was > > coupled to another incompatible change (RDF 1.1 semantics) so 3.x > > wasn't just to do the packages, package renaming waited until a > convenient > > point. > > > > Our users have data with (RDF) namespaces under old names - we are not > > planning on changing that at all. (A general issue for all linked data.) > > > > I don't see it as an issue for graduation if the project has considered > the > > matter. > > > > Andy > > > > > > On 07/08/15 23:16, Matthew Hayes 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 > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
