On 29 Apr 2014, at 6:31 am, Wil Clouser <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:33:40AM -0400, Lisa Brewster wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wil Clouser <[email protected]>
>>> And I've CC'd reviewers on the last bug and mentioned updating the reviewer
>>> guidelines to ensure appropriately similar short_names to names.
>> 
>> Yep, I've been following this.  My thoughts so far on defining the review
>> policy are that the short_name SHOULD contain a word from the full app
>> name, although there can be valid and reasonable exceptions to this.  The
>> short_name MUST not attempt to deceive the user.
>> 
>> For example:
>> BEST:  Happy Bunny Game with a short_name of "Bunny"
>> GOOD:  Happy Bunny Game with a short_name of "Easter"
>> BAD:  Happy Bunny Game with a short_name of “Paypal"

I think we should provide a way for users to check the short & long names 
themselves too. On FxOS I would suggest to do this in the settings app (and 
I’ve commented on the bug to suggest this). Not sure if this makes sense on 
desktop but just a thought. 

> 
> That sounds right.  Marco pointed me to
> https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/23 which is where the W3C is discussing
> it, apparently.  One of the examples there is "Robot Unicorn Attack 2"
> shows up as "RUA2" on the iPhone so you might want to talk about using 
> initials
> or something too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wil
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