Dear DRMAA WG,
I have a GO from the Eclipse group to provide the DRMAA Java
API(s) as part of our Triquetrum project [1], i.e. in the shape of
OSGi [2] bundles.
This would allow an easy integration from e.g. Eclipse
applications (or other OSGi-based solutions) with DRMs via DRMAA,
which is a real need for e.g. the Eclipse Science WG [3].
There was a remark though about the advised package name, as defined in https://redmine.ogf.org/documents/11 i.e. : org.ggf.drmaa
It seems the ggf.org domain is no longer registered for the
"Global Grid Foundation"?
And so there might be a risk about ownership/trademarks/... in the
future if GGF gets registered by someone else? (all kinds of legal
things I don't understand well myself).
So I have following questions :
1. Is it an option to change the expected Java package name to
e.g. org.ogf.drmaa ?
Potentially e.g. for DRMAA v2 as it would seem that there are no
known Java binding implementations yet?
(and then we live with the temporary risk for DRMAA v1 until
everyone has switched to v2)
2. Is the OGF or DRMAA group able to have a long-term "claim" on the namespace org.ggf somehow?
3. Or is this simply not considered a risk/issue in your community and is your advice to just go ahead with org.ggf.drmaa?
Thanks and regards,
erwin
[1] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.triquetrum