I'm +1 to changing the package prior to 1.0. Sooner the better, in my opinion. I'm -0 to trying to do it in a backwards compatible way, I don't think the upside is worth any effort.
- Dan On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey devs, > > I'd like to start a discussion around package names. > > Right now our packages are prefixed with "org.kududb", a domain that AFAIK > is owned by Cloudera with a plan to transfer it to the ASF. In a perfect > world they should be named "org.apache.kudu" but it's not a requirement. > Many projects like Apache Netty and Apache OpenOffice use their own package > prefixes. > > The main impact of doing this is mostly on the Java side, and it can be > done without breaking existing but it would be quite a big effort. OTOH, if > the community generally agrees that it should be done, then now's a good > time since we're releasing 1.0 in a little over 2 months. > > Thoughts? > > J-D >
