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. - LSD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
