named urls should begin with a unique common prefix

This should clearly go into the next release, so we avoid any url pattern collisions with other apps.

However, I tend to think that the Django namespace mechanism for view names might be the better solution. We cannot rule out that someone else might use the 'mm_' prefix for view_names, but Django's namespace mechanism can.

Why is it not a good idea to use the Django mechanism?

We have to add "mm" prefix to every url like if the list show view is on url "/postorius/lists" should be shown on
"/mm/postorius/lists" , right ?

let me correct it again, we want the urls like "/potorius/lists" to be changed to "mm_postorius/lists" . This is what required to resolve that issue ?

@pjoshi - No, it is not the URL itself to which I refer. It is the "name" parameter of the url() function which allows a url pattern to be referenced within Django.

As an example, an app might have a detail view which is referenced by
    url(r'^(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),

From any page within the website, I can reference that view in a manner independent of actual URL by using
  <a href="{% url 'detail' %}"> ... </a>

Now, I might write another app which also has a detail view.
If it also has a similar entry, where the name assigned to the URL is "detail", then the reference would be ambiguous.
Namespacing allow me to differentiate between these two by referencing the namespace such as "{% url 'myapp:detail' %}

However, another use of namespace is to allow the same cluster of pages to appear in multiple places within the website.

Thus, by avoiding the generic name (such as 'detail') and relying on namespace to distinguish between apps, using an application specific name 'mm_detail' leaves the namespace mechanism free for other purposes. (Such as having multiple instances within the same website.

My use case is youth sports organization whose website is a combination of different sports. To the visitor, it generally appears that each sport is a separate website. The mailing list subscription pages thus appear multiple times. The namespace mechanism is used to distinguish between these instances.

@Richard So basically you need to create urls such that we will "mm_details" as the name of the url but url will remain same and this will be helpful to didtingwish between urls of some other app which may also contain "details" as a url name, right ?

Correct.

> On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:06 AM, pjoshi <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> @Richard So basically you need to create urls such that we will
> "mm_details" as the name of the url but url will remain same and this
> will be helpful to didtingwish between urls of some other app which may
> also contain "details" as a url name, right ?