What's your idea?
Currently, projects get assigned their final namespace during the 'promote to full project' operation.
This proposal suggests that the 'shortname' field be exposed on sandbox projects, where it be made editable by the project owner but read-only to all other users. Validation logic on this field would ensure that the chosen shortname does not conflict with any previously established "full" projects, and could potentially also warn users about namespace conflicts with other sandbox projects (but still allow the field to be saved).
Essentially, this proposal can be summarized as Item #1 at https://drupal.org/node/2034437.
What are the benefits?
- Opportunity to flag similar projects to contributors before they've invested a significant amount of time into their code.
What are the risks?
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How can we measure the impact of this idea? (metrics)
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Who directly benefits from / will use this improvement? (target audiences)
- New contributors
Are additional resources available for discovery/implementation? (volunteer effort, financial backing, etc.)
- Individual bite-sized tasks listed on https://drupal.org/node/2034437
Comments
Nice, simple improvement that
Nice, simple improvement that would help prevent project duplication, and less ambitious than https://groups.drupal.org/node/312893 (which would still be cool).