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On 02/05/2016 09:08 AM, michael mccune wrote:
> On 02/04/2016 12:57 PM, Hayes, Graham wrote:
>> On 04/02/2016 15:40, Ryan Brown wrote:
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>>> This isn't a perfect solution, but maybe instead of projects.yml there
>>> could be a `registry.yml` project that would (of course) have all the
>>> project.yml "in-tent" projects, but also merge in external project
>>> requests for namespaces?
>>
>> Where ever it is stored, could this be a solid place for the api-wg to
>> codify the string that should be shown in the catalog / headers /
>> other places by services?
>>
>
> this seems like a reasonable approach, the big downside might be
> grooming the "dibs" list. we could have projects that expect to go
> somewhere, register their name, then never achieve "lift-off". in these
> cases we would need to release those names back into the free pool.

There could be some kind of reaping process, say every January send an 
email to every project with outstanding "dibs" to check that they still 
exist and want that name.

I think a 1 year TTL would be a good starting spot, does that help?

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Ryan Brown / Senior Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.