On 29/02/12 10:02, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
I don't see that this getting to any clear end yet. So I suggest that we
take this from a Sqoop instance to be a discussion on rules them selves.
I would like to start a [VOTE] about whether it is a *must* for podlings to
rename all packages before being a TLP or not over keeping the old package
names for backward compatibility. What ever the consensus going to be built
we definitely need to update the Incubator documents to clear this kind of
issue. But before starting the vote I would like to consider others'
opinions.
Thoughts ?
In the case of Apache Jena (incubating), we have more than ten years'
worth of existence as an open-source project. In that time, there have
been countless tutorials, articles, research papers, code snippets,
books and add-on tools that make use of Jena code in the com.hp
namespace. But Jena was never an HP *product*, it was an output from the
HP research lab in the UK.
Our intention as Apache project has been much like Sqoop's: to migrate
to org.apache names but keep a compatibility layer in place. We had
thought that migration wasn't necessary for graduation, but if it is, no
biggie. What would be problematic for our community is if we can't host
the compatibility layer packages *at all* under Apache. If we have to
expunge all references to com.hp.* packages, then all that
back-catalogue of tutorials etc will be instantly obsolete ... unless
folks know to go and separately download the jena-compatibility package
from SourceForge or wherever it would hypothetically end up.
Some of the discussion around Sqoop has been that the
backwards-compatibility requirement is all about Cloudera's customers so
it's Cloudera's problem. In the case of Jena, it has never been about
HP's customers, and it definitely isn't HP's problem since none of the
current committers work there any more.
Ian
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