On 12/21/2005 3:13 AM, Leo Simons wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +0000, James Strachan wrote:
On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always
took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had
the need to codify it...
Yeah - I've never seen it actually written down anywhere & noticed
that the Roller project hadn't switched domains yet.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/src/org/
I wondered why this was mandatory; the purpose of the Java package
name scheme is purely to avoid clashes; provided the .org domain name
is owned (& we'd be happy to donate to Apache) I don't see why we
need to force a major package name change on our users. If it is
mandatory then hey we'll comply I'm just questioning who made this
decision and why?
Sun Microsystems in their coding standards :-). It was in retrospect
not such a good idea perhaps...
One thing we *can't* have is trademarks that aren't owned by the ASF
(registered or not), so *if* the package isn't changed then yes the
org.roller name and domain *should* probably come under full control of
the ASF (I'll say that's a good idea anyway).
I think the package name change is currently not mandatory, but perhaps
it should be.
FWIW, ActiveMQ and ServiceMix are currently in the process of being
transfered.
Regards,
Alan
