Problem/Motivation

When creating a new project on drupal.org the human readable name needs to be globally unique

Proposed resolution

Change this so that machine name / human name combo has to be unique, also don't rope in sandbox projects to those that are currently being tested against.

Remaining tasks

node/add/project / project edit forms need to stop doing unique field validation on Name alone.

To replicate issue

You can see this on a module I'm starting to work on called assessment -- https://www.drupal.org/project/assessment
Assessment is apparently the name of a sandbox or other project (human readable name) but as I have the machine_name assessment, I should be able to name it the same thing without this being a conflict.

I'm not positive, but I believe this is because someone probably has a sandbox called Assessment somewhere in the d.o. world, which shouldn't conflict but does when performing these checks.

Comments

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Project: Drupal.org infrastructure » Project
Version: » 7.x-2.x-dev
Component: Other » Projects
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

The project title is used in autocompletes, such as on this form. If I make a sandbox called "Drupal core", how do you know your issue is being moved to the right project (without knowing that 3060 is a magic number)?

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So it's not possible to append something to the auto complete language like:
Sandbox: Drupal Core by _cool_user_name_here (123863)

I'll be honest it's very confusing now in general w/ how many projects there are (at times) getting things into the right queue but it's a bit odd to not be able to give a title to a project because of sandbox names that may conflict.

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Project module has gotten into custom entity reference handlers. It is possible to add these with some planning.

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Same issue here, trying to rename a project.
Machine name: linkback
Project Title: Link Back

Trying to change the title to Linkback, because thats the term used in specifications/documentations around the, i get the following message: "This project name is already in use."

Searching for the project name on d.o I find a sandbox named linkback
https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/barami/2136791

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barami CreditAttribution: barami as a volunteer commented

Hello sanduhrs.

I've received your message recently.
First of all. I appreciate to your plans.

Actually, I had planed to write module which works like you said. (for pingback, trackback, and refback)
I had found that 'backlinks' module created and not being developed.
And I created project named 'linkback'.

But I always busy.. and couldn't start.
I will rename my sandbox immediately.

Thanks for message.
Good luck!

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CreditAttribution: sanduhrs as a volunteer and at erdfisch commented

Thank you barami, for your prompt response.
Could change the title after you renamed your sandbox.