On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I know of examples in both directions. Lucene does _not_, to cite a big one. It could be tangled up with the big trademark question: if the trademark is (some day) 'Apache NiFi' as opposed to 'NiFi', it might make sense for the file to be named 'apache-nifi-...'. However, I would not change anything we push to Maven Central no matter what. We could also ask for more broad advice; clearly at one point it was endemic to make it apache- and then it appears that thinking shifted. > > -- > 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 >>
