[ccan] Moving modules to vanity naming?

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Rusty Russell wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:39:06 am david at lang.hm wrote:
>> I think it would be better to group by similar functionality, and within
>> that grouping add author names.
>
> Isn't that simply adding another level of indirection?  I'm really unsure
> what the popular groups would be, so I figured that by-author was the
> least-sucky way of side-stepping that.
>
> As you allude, we'd still need both since by-functionality makes the
> namespace issues worse.

it could be <module>-author rather than a separate directory level.

>> If I'm browsing through things, having the first-level split be by author
>> provides (almost) no useful information.
>
> That's true, and I find it personally annoying.
>
> Yet I hope that we will get thousands of modules.  That means the utility of
> browsing the git repository will diminish, so I don't believe we should
> optimize for that case.
>
> The website listing won't be by author (at least, the main list), just the
> actual layout in the repo.

won't the website suffer the same problem?

don't think of it as browsing git, think of it as getting a tree that's 
all the modules checked out and browsing through the source files.

David Lang