Is there a length limit to call signs? I imagine that the answer is yes, at
least in terms of how hashes are displayed on that page, I would imagine
that anything above 11 characters would make the shortened display of
hashes unusable.
I'm personally not a fan of abbreviations like "VE" to begin with, although
I do unfortunately use them sometimes in public content like commit
messages. They're alienating to casual code contributors who should be
dealing with unified naming for a given component and shouldn't need to
learn our insider jargon. If the extension is called VisualEditor, so
should the rest. For example in the diffusion page you've linked to, the
fact that the URL is /VE/ is a bad idea, imho. I understand the challenge
for hash display, but there's no reason to make the URL shorter. Are the
two tied together in Phabricator? I.e. does the callsign define the
diffusion URL?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 26/11/2014 03:45, James Forrester a écrit :
> > A handful of repos are so important and high-profile that we can use an
> > acronym without too much worry, like "MW" for MediaWiki or "VE" for
> > VisualEditor.
>
> What is the point of opening a discussion if some people already
> rushed/enforced their decisions ?
>
> > For the rest, we need to make sure we've got a good enough
> > name that won't cause inconveniences or confusion, and doesn't repeat the
> > mistakes we've identified over time. We've learnt since the SVN to git
> > migration a few years ago that calling your repository "/core" is a bad
> > plan, for instance.
>
> {in your opinion}, I think `/core` is just fine.
>
>
> >
> > [[mw:Phabricator/Diffusion/Callsign_naming_conventions]]
> > <
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Diffusion/Callsign_naming_conventions
> >
>
> Can we take sometime to clean up the repositories, there are a lot of
> obsolete/abandoned ones that I would love to see disappear or archived
> somewhere else.
>
>
> For the Gerrit hierarchy 'integration/*', please have who ever is
> leading the project to fill a task for the #contint project. Some repos
> need to be renamed / changed.
>
>
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>
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