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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:25:57 +0100
From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
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Hi,

Jena graduated 2012 with old namespaces under com.hp.hpl.jena, and some 
under org.openjena, with an intention to change at the first major 
release update.  As new packages came along, they went into 
org.apache.jena but the user facing packages remained where they were.

We released Jena 3.0.0 last month, so 3 years. That major release was 
coupled to another incompatible change (RDF 1.1 semantics) so 3.x
wasn't just to do the packages, package renaming waited until a 
convenient point.

Our users have data with (RDF) namespaces under old names - we are not 
planning on changing that at all.  (A general issue for all linked data.)

I don't see it as an issue for graduation if the project has considered 
the matter.

	Andy

On 07/08/15 23:16, Matthew Hayes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Roman Shaposhnik suggested I open a discussion on the following topic:
>
> For Apache DataFu, all of the Java classes are declared in a datafu.*
> namespace.  This has been the naming convention since the DataFu project
> started in 2010.  Since DataFu became part of the Apache incubation
> process, the topic has come up of moving all of the classes into a
> org.apache.datafu.* namespace.  This was first discussed in January 2014
> (see DATAFU-7) and most recently again in the past couple weeks.  The
> consensus at the time last year was that it would be a huge pain for users
> and not worth the cost.  It would break any script out there currently
> using DataFu.  Also Jakob Homan and Russell Journey pointed out that this
> is just a convention and not all Apache projects follow it.  Since we would
> like DataFu to graduate sometime soon it would be good to clarify what the
> requirements are on package naming conventions before we do a release.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>


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