James Forrester wrote:
I think MW and MWV would be reasonable for the two main mediawiki/* repos, but I don't really care.
I think "GVED" is ugly as hell, and though EVED is fine for the MediaWiki extension shell around VisualEditor; VE and VEMW would make more sense in general, but they break the naming system [...]
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?
VisualEditor/VisualEditor would most naturally be VEVE. I'm not sure if that's better or worse than GVED. It would mean that VE-Drupal would be VEDP, VE-WordPress would be VEWP, etc. Just a thought.
mediawiki/core could be WIKI, but people might object. MWMW is rough, yes.
Anyway, a foolish consistency and all that. :-) Maybe we can just specify a maximum character length? I think constraining ourselves a bit here is a good idea to ensure that the callsigns aren't crazy long, but I'm not sure a fixed length is absolutely necessary (though I do think it looks nicer).
MZMcBride