I tend to agree. If it's going to present a significant technical hurdle and the software is clearly non ASF like via a different artifact, there's a decent argument the namespace should stay. The artifact has to change though and that is what David was referring to in his other message.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 08:33 Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > I really think the only thing that should have to change is the maven > group and identifier, not the java namespace. > > There are compatibility problems with the java namespace changing > (e.g. access to private[spark]), and I don't think that someone who > takes the time to change their build file to download a maven artifact > without "apache" in the identifier is at significant risk of consumer > confusion. > > I've tried to get a straight answer from ASF trademarks on this point, > but the answers I've been getting are mixed, and personally disturbing > to me in terms of over-reaching. > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > Looks like this is done; docs have been moved, flume is back in, etc. > > > > For the moment Kafka streaming is still in the project and I know > > there's still discussion about how to manage multiple versions within > > the project. > > > > One other thing we need to finish up is stuff like the namespace of > > the code that was moved out. I believe it'll have to move out of the > > org.apache namespace as well as change its artifact group. At least, > > David indicated Sonatype wouldn't let someone non-ASF push an artifact > > from that group anyway. > > > > Also might be worth adding a description at > > https://github.com/spark-packages explaining that these are just some > > unofficial Spark-related packages. > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Kostas Sakellis <kos...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I'd like to close out the discussion on SPARK-13843 by getting a poll > from > >> the community on which components we should seriously reconsider > re-adding > >> back to Apache Spark. For reference, here are the modules that were > removed > >> as part of SPARK-13843 and pushed to: https://github.com/spark-packages > >> > >> streaming-flume > >> streaming-akka > >> streaming-mqtt > >> streaming-zeromq > >> streaming-twitter > >> > >> For us, we'd like to see the streaming-flume added back to Apache Spark. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Kostas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org > > >
