Has nothing to do with incubation. You're talking about Foundation-wide policy. You cannot impose different naming rules on podlings, than what is imposed on TLPs. Please see my response in the original thread. You need a Board resolution and rationale.
-g On Feb 29, 2012 5:03 AM, "Mohammad Nour El-Din" <nour.moham...@gmail.com> 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 ? > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din > > > <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On the other hand, I totally respect that Cloudera's interest to > > support > > > > their customers and provide backword compatibility, but this is *not* > > the > > > > point at all, the point is this *should* not, and even allow me to > say > > > this > > > > is *must* not be the problem of Apache, and yes I agree with the > > opinion > > > > that this is a matter to be decided by Sqoop team but not to make > > > Apache's > > > > problem. So also let not get more into this!!! > > > > > > Or course this is Apache's problem. You can't have your cake and eat > > > it too. If you accept code for a project you accept the community as > > > well. Say Apache accepts a project like Open Office, should we ignore > > > the existing community and not concern ourselves with backward > > > compatibility for that project as well, because the original code > > > wasn't birthed at Apache? > > > > > > > That's a very slippery slope. Maybe some projects get way too much leeway > > because of the big flashing lights. Regardless of how big the press > > headlines are all projects should be held to the same standard. > > > > No project should be allowed to graduate without solving all issues > > pertaining to marks. It's a failure of the incubator in the past for > > allowing other projects to do so. I'm shocked it was allowed. > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > -- Alex > > > > > > -- > Thanks > - Mohammad Nour > ---- > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" > - Albert Einstein >
