On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Abhishek Tiwari <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In regards to the recently incubated project - Gobblin, we were wondering > > about the policy around renaming Java package names to org.apache.* Is > it a > > mandatory requirement or good to have? > > > > The reason to ask this is that while we see many projects have migrated > to > > use org.apache.* package name for their Java source files, the Kafka > > project uses kafka.* for Scala sources and org.apache.kafka.* for Java > > sources. > > > > Please let us know as soon as possible, because we are in process of > > renaming the packages but if not mandatory we would want to keep > gobblin.* > > package name and avoid the cost of downstream migrations and backwards > > incompatibility. > > You don't have to do it right away, but it is a requirement unless you > have a really, > really, really good reason of why you can't do that. > > I'm not aware of any requirement around Java package naming. IN fact, last time it came up it was clear that its a best practice only, and doesn't have any actual naming requirements. > Or to put it a different way: during your eventual graduation this > question will be > asked and you better have a really, really good explanation if you're > still using > something other than o.a. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
