Choosing a good shortname, and making sure everything else has that same name

[boutell]

The "shortname" of your project, like "ccd" or "pogil" or "thenotebook", should also be the name of the repo, the name of the database, the name of the directory on the server (and on your hard drive), and the name of everything else that requires a unique name for the project. Do everything you can to avoid diverging on this point.

The shortname may contain lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens. Nothing else.

The shortname should be short, but consistency is even more important than brevity.

Also, if a project is "forked," for instance to create a full site from a placeholder site, and the placeholder site continues to be live in the meantime, the shortname / database name / everything name must be different for the fork. See https://github.com/punkave/best-practices/issues/20.

[austinstarin]

I'm all for this!

[austinstarin]

I'm going to tag this "to document" unless anyone opposes!