crossposting to java and packaging -
Seems like we need an accepted standard for naming packages from
apache.org, particularly commons.apache.org. We already have lots of
"jakarta-commons-*" packages, but now "commons" is an ex-jakarta project
and jakarta.apache.org/commons redirects to commons.apache.org. Same
with jakarta taglibs (although that moved to tomcat).
As of now, the only apache-* package I know of is apache-ivy, which I
would have named simply "ivy". I've got a package request in for
"commons-jexl"[1], but it has been suggested that it be named
apache-commons-jexl. If it were named that I would want a Provides:
commons-jexl much like most jakarta-commons-* packages, so it doesn't
really clean up the namespace any (just adds to it in fact).
commons-* is a lousy name though too, be very generic.
So, I'm fine with either (although I think it's quite possible that
"apache commons" could get renamed again), but at this juncture before a
bunch more packages come in from apache commons, I think we should make
a decision and stick with it.
1 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531379
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