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Proposal: Change repo name to cds-prototype-kit #144

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pcraig3 opened this issue Dec 7, 2019 · 3 comments
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Proposal: Change repo name to cds-prototype-kit #144

pcraig3 opened this issue Dec 7, 2019 · 3 comments
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pcraig3 commented Dec 7, 2019

Summary

Change the name of this repository from node-starter-app to cds-prototype-kit.

Motivation

@brianhendrick1, our Service Designer, doesn't know what Node.js is, nor should he have to. The fact that this is a node app isn't the important thing about this repository.

Why are we doing this?

At the Government Digital Service, they have a repository intended to quickly spin up prototypes with a common look-and-feel — pretty much exactly what this one is for.

Theirs is called the govuk-prototype-kit, while ours is called the node-starter-app.

Calling it a prototype kit is more descriptive of the intention of the repository (prototypes and early alphas), whereas the fact that it is written in node is an implementation detail.

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Drawbacks

It's featured in a slide deck as a "BETA" 😉so all our downstream clients might be confused.

Unresolved questions

We could also call it cds-kit-prototype-snc if we wanted a more bilingual name. (Also, names are changeable — let not the perfect be the enemy of the good, etc.)

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cc: @rossferg @mcman12

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No objections on this end.

If we do get down to the point of a -starter-repo, we can always alias this out again.

Speaking of the gov-uk prototype kit... Their principles and security pages are quite nice. Would be nice to pull those in at some point in the future as well.

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timarney commented Jan 9, 2020

@rossferg any thoughts?

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