[Fedora-packaging] Re: advice on packaging name for MetricsGrimoire MailingListStats

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  I'm interested in packaging up a mailing list statistics program
> from
>  the MetricsGrimoire project.
>
>  The tarball is named
>
>    MetricsGrimoire-MailingListStats-0.4.2-64-gb0664d1.tar.gz
>
>  which suggests "MetricsGrimoire-MailingListStats" as the package name.
>  That's pretty unwieldy though. Another option might be just
>  MailingListStats. But then, the docs refer to "MLStats", and the
>  primary program is "mlstats".
>
>  So....
>
>   * MetricsGrimoire-MailingListStats
>   * MailingListStats
>   * MLStats
>   * mlstats
>
>  ?
>
>  I've reread the naming guidelines and... yeah, judgement call. I'm kind
>  of inclined to go with mlstats for brevity and lower-case aesthetic
>  considerations.  Opinions?
>  
That... is a ridiculously inconsistent package. I'd personally go with
mlstats. Unless I hate the people using them, then maybe I'll choose
any of the three other options. :P



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