Re: [VOTE][LAZY] Move BCEL and JCS to Commons

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:09 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23 June 2011 03:38, Rahul Akolkar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> After reasonable support to the idea on Jakarta and Commons lists,
>> this is a vote to move BCEL and JCS to Apache Commons.
>>
>> As part of the move, I'll nominate any active committers for Commons
>> karma (so far: dbrosius, asmuts, tv -- anyone else, please ping this
>> thread).
>>
>> Since neither may have enough PMC members active, this vote will be
>> held by lazy consensus. If you object to moving either/both, please
>> also provide a reason and an alternative course of action.
>>
>> Vote runs for 72 hours. Vote is being held on general@jao but is being
>> cross-posted to ensure we reach the full audience.
>
> I've not looked at JCS; I've done a bit of tinkering on BCEL.
>
> +1 to moving them.
>
> But I hope the move won't *require* the package names to be changed to
> o.a.commons.
> Likewise Maven ids.
>
> If later on it proves necessary to make an incompatible API change,
> that would be the point to change package names.
>
> But I think users would be understandably upset if the package or
> Maven name was changed unnecessarily, and I will vote -1 against any
> such change.
>
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I agree. There is precedent for not changing package names when things
move to Commons, so I think most also agree with your thinking above.

-Rahul