Mozilla GitHub repository naming convention

I wanted to create a new GitHub repo in the Mozilla GitHub org and went searching for a document defining a naming convention for repository names. I didn't find anything so I thought I'd look at what names people used and deduce a convention.

  • 928 (100%) Mozilla GitHub Repositories
  • 878 (95%) have no uppercase characters
  • 909 (98%) have no underscore character
  • 517 (56%) have a dash character

Looks like the convention is :

  • Use all lower case
  • Separate words with a dash character if needed

I used PyGitHub to query the GitHub API.

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