Dear All,
Last week beside my own talk about standards and data quality at Apache Big Data / ApacheCon Core Europe I took part in discussions at Apache BarCamp Europe, too.
A topic discussed was "Small Reusable Components". To find out, if there was a smaller set of libraries for components that are found useful to more than one project. At the moment it is mostly Commons. And several participants mentioned cases similar to the issue Eclipse IP team feels present in Commons Math 3.
Members of the Apache Board and similar administrative bodies at Apache Foundation made very clear in the BarCamp, that should a single class be missing or different from an official release, the artifact must no longer be called "Apache Commons Math" or similar.
The "com.springsource..." clones of widely used open source projects would be a good example of how to do it if all else fails. Should Philip not find a solution with Eclipse IP to get Apache Commons Math 3 entirely unchanged (not sure about the OSGi Manifest where missing, but looking at those Spring bundles it seems even that might be a breach of original artifact) into Orbit, the only legal way would be adding it under something like "com.lablicate.apache.commons.math3".
Kind Regards,
