[hibernate-dev] Killing hibernate-jpa-api ?

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 13 December 2017 at 13:54, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Considering the spec contracts are defined by the EG under the JCP, I'm not
> sure where we ever stood legally with publishing this under any other
> license.  Either way, I am not concerned about the license aspect - I think
> it is a reasonable expectation that if I am using a jar produced by a spec
> that use of that jar is covered by the JCP under which it was produced.

+1
Also, we'll be switching to use the official ones anyway. That's an
orthogonal concern, my goal with this thread is to sunset our custom
fork with least possible friction, but it's not going to live much
longer for sure.

> Sanne, my concern about publishing the relocation artifact is that the
> expectation is that we keep publishing them ever time there is a new spec
> version.  Right?

Not really. Think of it as Deprecation: it will trigger some warnings
for end users, especially those who didn't get the "news" of moving to
the new API, and keep things working for a little longer for those
people not willing (able?) to react right away to resolve the
warnings.

We can keep a deprecated method (jar) around for a couple more
releases, or drop it as soon as it gets too inconvenient to maintain.
It's definitley not a promise of long term.

>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:47 AM Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> Seems like the right thing to do. I'm just concerned about the license. Is
>> it identical?
>> Some people might be upset to get a new dependency pulled "automatically"
>> if it has a stricter license...
>>
>> Yoann Rodière
>> Hibernate NoORM Team
>> yoann at hibernate.org
>>
>> On 13 December 2017 at 13:10, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Looks like the general agreement is that we will no longer need
>> >  - https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-jpa-api
>> >
>> > As we're switching to the standard API distribution, finally available:
>> > javax.persistence:javax.persistence-api:2.2
>> >
>> > Still I expect there's going to be some confusion about this, e.g.
>> > Scott was asking today in chat where to find our custom API at
>> > versions 2.2.
>> >
>> > I'd like to deploy a relocation artifact so that people merely
>> > upgrading the version to 2.2 of their dependency to
>> > org.hibernate.javax.persistence will get an automated warning and be
>> > nicely redirected to the new artifact.
>> >
>> > Any objections?
>> >
>> > The one problem I can see is that in case we need to patch it we'd
>> > need to restore the org.hibernate.javax.persistence and it might get
>> > messy, but I think we can agree the chance for this need to arise
>> > being extremely small.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sanne
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