Bug 486534

Summary:	Standardize product name capitalisation.
Product:	[Websites] bugs.kde.org	Reporter:	Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell <4wy78uwh>
Component:	product/component changes	Assignee:	KDE sysadmins <sysadmin>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	task	CC:	christophe, nate
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	4wy78uwh: performance-
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments:	https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi

Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2024-05-04 00:21:35 UTC

Created attachment 169167 [details]
https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi

SUMMARY
When searching for a component, the alphabetical order is incorrect due to some products being correctly capitalized, like https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=NeoChat, and others not, like https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=headerthemeeditor. This obviously also has the effect of making discerning the individual names of some products difficult.

Although a lot of products exist, were there were a way to contribute a change to this via git, I'd have done so. However, I don't see a way to from my end.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-05-05 02:28:58 UTC

Yeah, the current state here is currently pretty messy, because some products have a name that echoes the git repo name, and others use a user-friendly name.

Neither is obviously correct, but the mix between the two styles is a bit awkward, yeah. Ideally we'd settle on one and use it consistently.

The problem is that renaming products has a cost: it breaks people's saved bugzilla queries and search URLs, and we need to react to the renamed products in multiple places to change the names: individual git repos, as well as the shared git-repo-metadata project.

Therefore, we have to weigh the disruption of changing anything against the disruption caused by the status quo. I think in this case the pain of changing is going to be worse than the pain of staying where we are.