Re: git, debian/<version> tags, dgit - namespace proposal [and 1 more messages]

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 03:11:54PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 02:02:32PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I'm considering:
> >    archive/{debian,ubuntu}/<version>
> >    {debian,ubuntu}/archive/<version>
> > 
> > I'm still considering the capitalisation idea.
> > 
> > Other suggestions welcome.
> 
> More of a meta-idea.
> 
> You're absolutely right in being unwilling to use "dgit" as part of the
> namespace, on the basis that it is just a specific implementation of a
> more general specification. But then, the natural consequence of that
> argument is that you need a generic name for the "thing" that the
> specification standardize. Once you have that name, and everyone is
> clear on the fact that it names the standard rather than the
> implementation, there would be nothing wrong in using it as part of the
> namespace.

I think that would be the best solution. It's concise and not confusing.

> (Or you can just say that "dgit" is an overloaded name for both the spec
> and a specific reference implementation of it. But I'd agree that doing
> so might in the long term end up being confusing.)
> 
> Hope [but not so sure that] this helps,

Cheers,
 -- Guido