Re: Create qemu-project/py-qemu.qmp repo

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 2:00 PM Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:46:48PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > Hi Alex: do you have the ability to create a blank/empty "py-qemu.qmp"
> > repo under the qemu-project grouping, and add me and Cleber as
> > maintainers for it? There weren't any objections when I floated the
> > idea [1].
> >
> > (Though I suggested "py-qemu.qmp" and Dan suggested "python-qemu.qmp".
> > I don't think we explicitly reconciled the difference. I like the
> > shorter one.)
>
> Since you CC'd me to this message, I'm going to assume you're
> explicitly welcoming my input on what specific shade this bikeshed
> should be painted ;)
>

More of a "Speak now or forever hold your peace" 😅

I think I would go with "python-qemu-qmp". Having a dot in the name
>
of a git repo is not very common AFAICT, and I wouldn't rule out the
> possibility of some GitLab feature or other tooling breaking or
> misbehaving because of it.
>
> If you're really keen on saving those few extra keystrokes, maybe
> "pyqemu" is a better prefix than "py-qemu"? I don't know, it just
> looks more natural to me.
>

The idea is to have the repo name resemble the Python package name, which
is "qemu.qmp". For Python, it's customary to have the package name match
the import name. The import name is "qemu.qmp".

I tested this name on GitLab and it appears to work just fine.

I'd add "py:" as a prefix, but the colon doesn't work as a filename in many
places, so I suggested "py-".

Thus, all together, "py-qemu.qmp".

(I could spell out "python", I just prefer the shorter prefix because it's
explanatory enough as-is and I like keeping git checkout names short. My
favorite color of bike shed is blue.)


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