Hi all, In the recent votes for Calcite [1] and Avatica [2] there were some -1 votes regarding minified javascript files present in the source releases.
The concerns are raised for the following files: site/js/html5shiv.min.js site/js/respond.min.js >From discussions in other lists it seems that there are Apache source releases including minified files so I don't think we are violating any policy by including them but there are deferring opinions on this topic [3,4]. To avoid bringing back the discussion to if minified javascript should be present or not I would like to propose one of the following alternatives: 1. It seems that both of the aforementioned scripts [5,6] are used for compatibility reasons with old browsers. I think most of the people are not using these browsers anymore so I would suggest removing them altogether from the code. 2. If for some reason we need to keep them then we could directly use the non minified version. The difference of minified vs unminified for both files is ~6KB so I doubt it will have any real impact with the internet connections that we use nowadays. What do you think? Best, Stamatis [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r049cf5b953eb5824ba37df21094dd7c1e92146d659db4735ad121593%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r074720fc062bde09a7e69dc77f77754c7fd4c22f1357514f6b2196d0%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcddc30dd1f0c7f20709e09de7202d4d6885d6235a7fce1c1ab46e4ed%40%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E [4] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201805.mbox/%3c89a47c0b-e74e-4571-b282-dbe505291...@classsoftware.com%3e [5] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond [6] https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv
