Does anyone know of other projects that do this? The standard post-incubator trademark guidelines already will have people saying "Apache NiFi" for the first reference in a document. That's plenty IMO.
Also, we're still incubator, which means we have to caveat any claims to the ASF marks. -- Sean On Mar 14, 2015 9:58 PM, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > We received feedback from an IPMC member who gave us a +1 on the vote > for 0.0.2 but provided what he called minor/trivial feedback. The > statement he made was: > > "Consider adding apache to source artefact names for possible extra > legal protection / branding" > > This concept is discussed briefly in this section [1]. > > I had personally already seen this guidance and decided not to add it > as we were putting artifacts in initially. My reasoning was: > - It is not required and of unclear value > - It adds an additional seven characters to artifact names which are > often already quite long > - We already have a maven group name of 'org.apache.nifi' > - it didn't appear to me to be common practice among other projects > > What does cause me to think twice about this though is this IPMC > member does a great job of reviewing releases and providing thoughtful > and very detailed feedback. > > So I'd just like us to have a good consensus on this one. > > If anyone feels strongly that we should add 'apache-' to our artifact > names please advise. > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#naming > > Thanks > Joe >
