Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66DA59722 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 55554 invoked by uid 500); 28 Feb 2012 17:16:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 55349 invoked by uid 500); 28 Feb 2012 17:16:48 -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 55340 invoked by uid 99); 28 Feb 2012 17:16:48 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:16:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-we0-f175.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username phunt, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:16:47 +0000 Received: by wera1 with SMTP id a1so1541222wer.6 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of phunt@apache.org designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.92.71; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of phunt@apache.org designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=phunt@apache.org Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.92.71]) by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr49798731wib.3.1330449406250 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr39858589wib.3.1330449406237; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:46 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.2.205 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <45295904-5BF7-40D6-8BDE-43747F2D0ADE@hortonwork.com> <20120228085246.GM3186@garfield> From: Patrick Hunt Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:26 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [VOTE] Graduate Sqoop podling from Apache Incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: >> Cloudera's compatibility issues are not our problem. These packages need to >> go. > > Citation needed. Without a written policy to that effect these things > are up for each project to decide. Jarek's rationale sounds perfectly > fine to me. > > We have plenty of projects that provide such backwards compatibility > wrappers or otherwise put stuff in non-apache namespaces for various > reasons. See for example [1] or [2]. > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/ > [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/specs/trunk/ > I agree with Jukka on this. There is no such policy. There are examples of well established TLPs doing similar. The files are explicitly deprecated and will be eventually removed, they are for the convenience of users and others building on top of Sqoop who are migrating from the original code base to Apache based packages. It makes total sense to provide a bridge that enables that group to move to the Apache version of the code. Patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org