Fwd: What would be a valid D-Bus interface name for a project without domain?

[Miroslav Kravec]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:
>> However, this would tie the project to the GitHub. GitHub is friendly to
>> open-source projects, but still I don't like idea to tie some identifier to git
>> hosting provider.
>
> I would recommend choosing some hosting provider (GitHub, GitLab,
> Bitbucket or similar, or a Linux distribution like Debian or Fedora, or
> maybe freedesktop.org) and getting a domain name via them; or buying a
> domain name for your project and using it for your project's website too.

Probably the best solution is to buy a domain. But, I quite don't like
an idea to buy a domain for completely-non-profit FOSS project.

>> So, I though of project-name.InterfaceName as the name for the interface. The
>> project already is packaged as project-name in various distributions, therefore
>> there won't be naming collision. However, this isn't "scoped" under some
>> domain. But, specification doesn't use word must but it says should. Therefore,
>> is it a valid interface name?
>
> It is syntactically valid, but semantically not a great idea.
>
>> Or, is there other approach for projects without a dedicated domain?
>
> What do Java developers do in this situation? D-Bus borrowed the reversed
> domain name convention from there.
>
> What do Android app-store app developers do in this situation? It has
> a very similar namespacing model.

Usually, Java projects are commercial ones, therefore owner has got
registered domain. Or, they are large open-source projects like
Spring, or they are open-source projects released by a company, or
they are under The Apache Software Foundation, or they are released as
mini tools by individual developers having their own domain
registered.

I haven't met publicly released Java project without having a domain.

But, the project I'm working on is "scoped" under github organisation,
which has got the same name, as is name of the project. There were
multiple developers involved in the past.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 at 15:20:43 +0100, Miroslav Kravec wrote:
>>     Interface names should start with the reversed DNS domain name of the
>>     author of the interface (in lower-case), like interface names in Java...
>>
>> GitHub provides github.io pages for users/organizations. So, the valid
>> interface name could be io.github.project-name.InterfaceName (GitHub
>> organisation, repository owner, name is the same as the project/tool name).
>
> The current recommendation is to translate dashes to underscores, but
> otherwise yes.
>
>> However, this would tie the project to the GitHub. GitHub is friendly to
>> open-source projects, but still I don't like idea to tie some identifier to git
>> hosting provider.
>
> I would recommend choosing some hosting provider (GitHub, GitLab,
> Bitbucket or similar, or a Linux distribution like Debian or Fedora, or
> maybe freedesktop.org) and getting a domain name via them; or buying a
> domain name for your project and using it for your project's website too.
>
> Is there any particular open source distribution that you
> have some sort of link to? You could perhaps use something like
> org.debian.packages.yourproject to mean "the project listed as yourproject
> on packages.debian.org"?
>
>> So, I though of project-name.InterfaceName as the name for the interface. The
>> project already is packaged as project-name in various distributions, therefore
>> there won't be naming collision. However, this isn't "scoped" under some
>> domain. But, specification doesn't use word must but it says should. Therefore,
>> is it a valid interface name?
>
> It is syntactically valid, but semantically not a great idea.
>
>> Or, is there other approach for projects without a dedicated domain?
>
> What do Java developers do in this situation? D-Bus borrowed the reversed
> domain name convention from there.
>
> What do Android app-store app developers do in this situation? It has
> a very similar namespacing model.
>
>     smcv
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