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@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Nov 29, 2014 1:58 PM, "Legoktm" legoktm.wikipedia@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@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@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
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