From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2002-12-25T14:38:42+09:00
Subject: [ATTN] Prepare name freeze of RAA

Hi, all,

We are preparing RAA update to freeze project "name" field.
As I wrote in [ruby-talk:58018], it is planed to happen at
the end of this year. (To say the truth, it will be at early
in the next year that we'll do the change :-)

Project owners, please go RAA http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/ now
and search RAA with your name to see if your project names
are appropriate for RAA users to remember.  An user may
try to install your library with Raainstall by typing
"raainstall -i projectname".  Another user might want to put
a link to your project such as
http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=raa .
Memorable project name is important.

You can search your project from
http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/search.rhtml .

Regards,
// NaHi and RAA development team


Excerpted from [ruby-talk:58018]

> - Project's "name" field is restricted to match
>   /\A[a-z0-9_-]{2,15}\z/ .
> 
>   * RAA users can refer a project with a simple name like
>     "druby".  They don't have to remember the ID number or
>     a long name like "druby - distributed ruby".
>   * Application owner must specify canonical name(s)
>     of his/her project(s).
> 
>   This field is a freezed (static, const) field.
> 
>   For each existing entries, I prepared a canonical name
>   created from former name, Project UNIX Name in
>   sourceforge or filename of its download item.  See
>   bottom of this mail for your entry.
> 
>   Since I created canonical names automatically with
>   a script[1], some owners would think that it isn't
>   a suitable name for their project.
>   So UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR(2002) owner can change
>   this "name" field of his/her entry.