Yes they are tied together. There are some really good explanations about the reasons and history of phab callsigns in https://secure.phabricator.com/T4245 I'm not a big fan of them either....
DJ On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > -- > > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
