Proposal: Drop elm- prefix from libraries

[mgold]

elm-commity/elm-random-extra, for example, has elm in it twice. This convention was established before the community came along, and we wanted to be clear on our personal GitHub pages what the library we had created was for. Under elm-community, one assumes to find only Elm things, so it seems unnecessary.

Migrating is going to be a real pain - maybe it waits for 0.18 - but if I could wave a magic wand and remove the elm- prefix without any kind of legacy pain, would it be a good idea?

[JoeyEremondi]

My main hesitation is that this makes it awkward for anyone who forks a
project. It's clear what random is in Elm-community, but if I want to do a
PR, I now have JoeyEremondi/random in my personal github.
On May 13, 2016 6:53 PM, "Max Goldstein" notifications@github.com wrote:

elm-commity/elm-random-extra, for example, has elm in it twice. This
convention was established before the community came along, and we wanted
to be clear on our personal GitHub pages what the library we had created
was for. Under elm-community, one assumes to find only Elm things, so it
seems unnecessary.

Migrating is going to be a real pain - maybe it waits for 0.18 - but if I
could wave a magic wand and remove the elm- prefix without any kind of
legacy pain, would it be a good idea?

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#27

[jvoigtlaender]

I agree with Max. Joey, you have the same problem with elm-lang/core, elm-lang/html etc.

[JoeyEremondi]

Very true, and I think it's even possible to change the repo name when you
fork. +1

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Janis Voigtländer <
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I agree with Max. Joey, you have the same problem with elm-lang/core,
elm-lang/html etc.

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#27 (comment)

[jvoigtlaender]

Actually: Why wait for 0.18? So far only 5 elm-community packages have been published in 0.17 versions. So maybe it's not too late to make the general name transition now for 0.17.

[mgold]

Okay, I'd like to wait for a few more people to weigh in, but I'm glad you two like the idea and I'll hold off publishing my e-c libs.

[lukewestby]

this sounds good to me, seeing elm- in front of every elm package ever is getting a little redundant

[ThomasWeiser]

I am also in favor of removing the tautologous elm- prefixes.

[fredcy]

Sounds good to me.

[abadi199]

I'm also in favor of removing the elm- prefixes, and we should just do it now for all unpublished packages, and for the one already published we can do what @rtfeldman suggested on slack channel

[jvoigtlaender]

@abadi199, can you repeat here what the suggestion on the slack channel was? Or is it a secret? 😄

[fredcy]

I believe this is the Slack conversation being referenced:

[abadi199]

Sorry, yes that's the slack conversation I was referring to.

[fredcy]

For packages already published such as elm-linear-algebra, are we to create a new renamed repo as a copy per rtfeldman's directions just above? If so, should we re-publish all the same versions?

[fredcy]

See also elm-community/elm-linear-algebra#12

[lukewestby]

waiting on feedback to @fredcy's comments above for elm-community/elm-json-extra#11 as well

[abadi199]

I also need to know what to do for elm-community/elm-list-extra#43

I'm suggesting to add

DEPRECATED: Renamed to http://package.elm-lang.org/elm-community/[new-package-name]

to the Readme of the old package, and create a new repo with the new name, and reset the version to 1.0.0

Also need to set the elm-package.json summary with the deprecate message so that it shows up in the search results summary in package.elm-lang.org.

e.g.:

{
    "version": "x.x.x",
    "summary": "DEPRECATED: Renamed to http://package.elm-lang.org/elm-community/[new-package-name]"
}

[jvoigtlaender]

Seems only one repository is left un-renamed: https://github.com/elm-community/elm-material-icons

After that, this issue could be closed @mgold?

[eeue56]

@mgold ping

[mgold]

Sorry! Will try to get to this.

[mgold]

Done!