On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

Hei,

I just wanted to ask a short question - why did you pick such a 
long github namespace?
Having something short is easier to remember, shorter to type, 
better visible and often recognized as more important (that's how 
our brains work). Another good example is that since github 
started to include the user/organization name in the header of 
issue /PR mails the title is barely readable.

My background is the today I changed my github account from 
@greenify to @wilzbach and actually changing the name is rather 
easy - github sets up all redirect automatically.
More infos: 
https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-when-i-change-my-username/

There a two things that one shouldn't forgot after the move is 
(1) to register the old account, so that no one can overwrite the 
redirects and (2) changing the CI config files (e. g. Travis 
allows repo protection)

I do know that in such a large project, there still might be some 
efforts involved (maybe with auto-tester) - so I wanted to ask 
you on your opinion regarding renaming the github organization?

Btw I have seen that someone already had a similar spirit and 
reserved d-lang.

https://github.com/d-lang

In case it's not one of you - there is still the friendly github 
support.