Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 94722 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2005 18:32:53 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Dec 2005 18:32:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 66653 invoked by uid 500); 22 Dec 2005 18:32:50 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 66540 invoked by uid 500); 22 Dec 2005 18:32:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 66527 invoked by uid 99); 22 Dec 2005 18:32:50 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:32:50 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [72.10.34.3] (HELO ss53.shared.server-system.net) (72.10.34.3) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:32:49 -0800 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-24-4-205-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.4.205.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by ss53.shared.server-system.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jBMIWSSa005560 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:32:29 -0800 Message-ID: <43AAF13B.1000605@toolazydogs.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:32:27 -0800 From: "Alan D. Cabrera" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Incubating java projects References: <43A8587D.3050101@toolazydogs.com> <80BD8BC6-D8D3-4005-B429-07FA1B053175@gmail.com> <20051221111353.GD36291@bali.sjc.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20051221111353.GD36291@bali.sjc.webweaving.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------030800060000050007060500" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N --------------030800060000050007060500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/21/2005 3:13 AM, Leo Simons wrote: >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. > > FWIW, ActiveMQ and ServiceMix are currently in the process of being transfered. Regards, Alan --------------030800060000050007060500--