On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Abhishek Tiwari <a...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > In regards to the recently incubated project - Gobblin, we were wondering > about the policy around renaming Java package names to org.apache.* Is it a > mandatory requirement or good to have? > > The reason to ask this is that while we see many projects have migrated to > use org.apache.* package name for their Java source files, the Kafka > project uses kafka.* for Scala sources and org.apache.kafka.* for Java > sources. > > Please let us know as soon as possible, because we are in process of > renaming the packages but if not mandatory we would want to keep gobblin.* > package name and avoid the cost of downstream migrations and backwards > incompatibility.
You don't have to do it right away, but it is a requirement unless you have a really, really, really good reason of why you can't do that. Or to put it a different way: during your eventual graduation this question will be asked and you better have a really, really good explanation if you're still using something other than o.a. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
