My reading of that is it's specifically for incubation, which indeed is not required based on this thread <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=dev@geode.incubator.apache.org&q=subject:%22Package+renaming%5C%3F%22&o=newest&f=1> .
But for leaving incubation and becoming a TLP my understanding was that it is required. On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Kirk Lund <kl...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > I just want to clarify that the reason we are planning to repackage is > > because of this policy: > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#repackaging > > > > ...which states that repackaging is recommended, but not mandated. Is > there > > a different source that states that it's mandated? > > ASF isn't really much a of a pure policy driven organization, but rather > institutional memory driven organization. The discussion you really want > to have is this: will IPMC vote for a podling graduating to the TLP status > with java packages NOT within org.apache. > > This is a good discussion to have, but it really belongs on > general@incubator. > > > Thanks, > Roman. > -- William Markito Oliveira -- For questions about Apache Geode, please write to *dev@geode.incubator.apache.org <dev@geode.incubator.apache.org>*
