From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2002-12-26T16:46:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ATTN] Prepare name freeze of RAA

Hi,

> From: "jared jennings" <jjenning@stetson.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 6:34 AM

> > 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
> 
> In thinking about making the name of my project, ruby-audiofile,
> more canonical, i have two questions:

Thank you for your cooperation.

RAA maintainers never want restrict your real project name.
The Project Name I wrote above is an identifier for RAA users
to distinguish projects in RAA.  You can choose any name for
your project and show it as a "Short description" in RAA.

Of cource, as one of the RAA users with less memory capacity,
I like an identifier which is similar to real project name. :-)

> 1. should i take the "ruby-" off?

IMO, from the above point of view, I like "ruby-" name if its real
name is "Ruby/AudioFile".  I'm sorry but I don't know the project
well so far, I think it is reasonable to have the name
"Ruby/AudioFile" if there are "Perl/AudioFile" and "Python/AudioFile",
too.

> 2. should it be more hierarchical
>  (e.g., "Sound::Audiofile" -> sound-audiofile)? (probably the issue
>  of hierarchical stuff has been discussed a lot in raa vs. cpan
>  threads, but i've missed most of that)

Also IMO, we don't have to mind too much about hierachical
category.  In RAA there are special fields for category.
If it's not enough to categorize projects, we can extend
this fields.

In my opinion as a RAA user, I like owners to name their project
a cool and original name.

Regards,
// NaHi