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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] - Packages renaming and backward compatibility (was:
 Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator)
From: Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com>
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I don't think it's a good question. I think that it is typical of the
sort of hypothetical question which leads to heaps of scorn from Sam.

I can imagine circumstances where it would make some sense, and some
cases where it would be evidence of a serious problem in a TLP.

The Foundation is supposed, I claim, to be about basic principles and
common sense, not endless picayune legislation.

It seems common-sensical that nearly any Java code created at the
foundation would be in an org.apache package -- but there's no point
to trying to chisel this into tablets as opposed to expecting people
to understand the general principles we're about here.

Leo, are you out there?

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