Tips for a Successful Project
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Part of the goal of Plone Software Center is to make Plone's add-ons more friendly for integrators and end users. For these users, a good name for your product will be very helpful.
I'd recommend you steer away from names that:
- contain implementation-level details
- are excessively technical
- are vague
For example, Plone Software Center itself was originally called "ArchPackage", which violated all three principles:
- it contained the name "Arch", suggesting that it was Archetypes-based. This is not so critical or important feature for someone shopping for a useful software-listing-product that it's worth putting in the title.
- The abbreviation for "Arch" as Archetypes is obscure enough that even some people that know what Archetypes is wouldn't have recognized it anyway.
- The name "package" is too vague for people to understand that these are software products being managed.
With these ideas in mind, I'd steer clear of any of the "CMF*", "Plone*", "AT*" naming schemes. Better is to find a name that users can associate with your product, rather than one that tries to explain exactly what it does, or how it does it.
Good names:
- Haystack (a product for extracting searchable information from data)
- Archetypes
- LinguaPlone
They're all suggestive and "product-y".
Similarly, when writing your project description, consider that people looking at your project may have no idea what is does. Focus on explaining what it is for rather than how it works (avoid the tendency to lead with "I used a BTree...", for example).
To help make sure the product repository is as helpful as possible for our community, the plone.org team may suggest edits your project description for clarity.