It probably doesn't really matter. My background is not in Java so
everything I "know" about Maven is from my experience in the Clojure
ecosystem and is purely observational.

I was initially intrigued because two-letter domain names are very hard to
come by and my assumption was that, when the group id is a reverse domain
name, the domain is associated with the entity that created the project.
Some of my work has to do with domains, so, out of curiosity, I take a peek
at the associated website whenever I use a library that has a reverse
domain group id. I don't recall ever finding a completely unrelated
website, which led to me developing my previously stated assumption.

As you said, this probably doesn't matter for a Maven artifact group id.
The only potential problems I see are 1. people like me might be confused
and 2. there is a chance, however small, that om.org will start using
Clojure and dispute your use of their group id. I'm not sure what would
happen in the latter case, but the Clojars about doc (
https://github.com/ato/clojars-web/wiki/About#what-do-i-do-if-someones-taken-my-group-name)
says that one of the criteria for dispute resolution is demonstrated domain
ownership.

Anyway, thanks again for Om and sorry for being a downer regarding the new
group id.



On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:24 PM, David Nolen <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, and not sure why this matters for group id for a Maven artifact.
>
> David
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Dom from (paren) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Cool! Thanks, David.
>>
>> I'm curious about the new dependency namespace. It looks like om.org is
>> registered to OM International Services Ltd. Are you associated with them?
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:27 PM, David Nolen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm happy to announce the release of Om 0.8.0. There's nothing much to
>>> say over the last rc1 release. The biggest change is how you include Om as
>>> a dependency:
>>>
>>> [org.om/om "0.8.0"]
>>>
>>> https://github.com/swannodette/om
>>>
>>> Have fun!
>>> David
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