Package naming suggestion?

[Chris Adams]

I've got a few useful Nagios monitoring plugins I'd like to add to
Fedora/EPEL.  I'm rather unimaginative at naming, so the Github repo for
them is "nagios-plugins-cmadams"... while I wouldn't mind having a
package with my username in it in Fedora, it seems a little vain. :)

Before I go making a package and submitting a new package ticket, any
suggestions about that?

https://github.com/cmadamsgit/nagios-plugins-cmadams

-- 
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net&gt;

[Joe Doss]

On 2/7/23 8:28 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>  I've got a few useful Nagios monitoring plugins I'd like to
> add to
>  Fedora/EPEL.  I'm rather unimaginative at naming, so the Github repo for
>  them is "nagios-plugins-cmadams"... while I wouldn't mind having a
>  package with my username in it in Fedora, it seems a little vain. :)
>  
>  Before I go making a package and submitting a new package ticket, any
>  suggestions about that?
>  
>  https://github.com/cmadamsgit/nagios-plugins-cmadams
>   
My two cents. I am a big fan of packages that are very explicit on what 
they are in the name. Doing a `dnf search nagios` turns up that most 
plugins start with nagios-plugin- so your current repo name follows that 
established convention.

I'd say leave it as is and get that package submitted. :)

Joe



-- 
Joe Doss
joe(a)solidadmin.com

[Sandro]

On 08-02-2023 03:38, Joe Doss wrote:
>  On 2/7/23 8:28 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I've got a few useful Nagios monitoring plugins I'd like to add to
> > Fedora/EPEL.  I'm rather unimaginative at naming, so the Github repo for
> > them is "nagios-plugins-cmadams"... while I wouldn't mind having a
> > package with my username in it in Fedora, it seems a little vain. :)
> >
> > Before I go making a package and submitting a new package ticket, any
> > suggestions about that?
> >
> > https://github.com/cmadamsgit/nagios-plugins-cmadams
> >
>  
>  My two cents. I am a big fan of packages that are very explicit on what
>  they are in the name. Doing a `dnf search nagios` turns up that most
>  plugins start with nagios-plugin- so your current repo name follows that
>  established convention.
>  
>  I'd say leave it as is and get that package submitted. :) 
I would suggest one package per plugin. The GitHub repo appears to 
contain three plugins. There's also some overlap in functionality. E.g. 
in Fedora we already have nagios-plugins-ssl_cert [1], which appears to 
do the same as your check_cert plugin.

The same holds for nagios-plugins-smtp [2].

Probably best to consult the nagios / nagios-plugins maintainers 
regarding naming convention and overlapping functionality. Should they 
not respond on list, then you can get in touch using 
${PACKAGE_NAME}-maintainers(a)fp.o.

[1] 
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/nagios-plugins-ssl_cert/nagios-pl...
[2] 
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-smtp/

-- Sandro