Three short notes:
- The G-prefix has on major advantage: it keeps the 'root namespace'
(i.e. the first letter) clean: at the moment only A C E G L M O P S W
are in use, so adding another prefix 'B' is easy. If we already have
repositories that start with a B, it's more confusing.
- Being a bit more flexible with the length seems OK to me, but I
would not do this for large namespaces (e.g. G and E). For 'the most
important repository in a namespace', using a shorter callsign makes
sense. So yes to MW, no to GVE and EVE. If it's important enough to be
shorter, it's important enough to have it's own prefix.
- A seperate prefix for VE is sensible if a larger set of
repositories are expected. GVED vs VEMW will be a bit confusing,
though, so I'd suggest VEMW rather than EVED in that case.
Merlijn
On 29 November 2014 at 20:33, Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Nov 29, 2014 1:58 PM, "Legoktm"
<legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On the talk page I suggested dropping the "G" prefix for top-level
repos, and just giving them an unprefixed callsign. I think that would
fix the ugliness of some of the frequently used names.
>> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:51:11 +0100, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> The only exception I'd make is MediaWiki. Under this
>> scheme the callsign is MWMW. MediaWiki should be
>> just plain MW.
If we rename "mediawiki/core" to just "mediawiki" it becomes a
top-level
repo and can just be "MW".
On 29 November 2014 at 09:13, Bartosz Dziewoński
<matma.rex(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Feels slippery. Next thing you know, someone will want VE and SMW. :)
If the "VisualEditor/VisualEditor" repo becomes "VisualEditor" I
don't
see anything against naming it "VE".
On 11/29/14 9:26 AM, James Forrester wrote:
> When we have VE-WordPress and VE-Drupal and VE-Joomla and whatever,
we'll
put them
as… GVEW, GVED, GVEJ *etc.* and just hope we never have a first
character clash on integrations?
I think we would set up VE as a prefix rather than dumping them under
general, so: VEWP, VEDP, VEJM (or whatever).
-- Legoktm
+1
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