ILDH design update - repo?

[Gregor Moss]

Hello! I hope everyone is keeping well and had a pleasant holiday season.

In the very near future, we'll begin reworking the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook (ILDH) to incorporate a new design, and it would be great to get your input on a question related to repository naming.

Context:

  *   URL: https://handbook.floeproject.org/
  *   Current repo: docs-inclusive-learning<https://github.com/fluid-project/docs-inclusive-learning> - 11ty, previously DocPad (active since 2015)
  *   Archived repo: handbook.floeproject.org<https://github.com/fluid-project/handbook.floeproject.org> - MediaWiki (active 2011-2015)

The upcoming work will build upon the current codebase, which I thought would be a good opportunity to rename the repo given the site's name and URL. The name of the archived repo seems the most appropriate in my opinion, though alternatives such as "ildh" or "inclusive-learning-design-handbook" would be serviceable.

Which of these options would you choose, and why? Or, would you choose another option?

  1.  Rename the archived repo and rename the current repo to take the former's name
  2.  Rename the current repo a new and less ambiguous name
  3.  Do nothing - leave the names as they are

It's worth noting that redirects to a previous name are preserved by GitHub according to their documentation<https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/renaming-a-repository>, EXCEPT if the name is reused. So Option 1 would break any redirects to the old repo (redirects which are over 6 years stale at this point, potentially), and Option 2 would preserve any redirects to the current repo.

Cheers,
Gregor
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