>it could be done as a fork That is fair. Everything could be done as a fork.
On the other hand, since this proposal requires changes to both Maven coordinates and Java package, the change could be implemented right within the current commons-lang3 with full backward compatibility. For instance, the current commons-lang3 is 3.19.0, so commons-stringutils3 could be published as 3.20.0 along with all the other lang3 artifacts. Do you have strong objections to doing the proposal in commons-lang3? Vladimir
