goldenmeanie
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7 months ago Thanks Cameron! This repo is mostly used as a dependency for wtf-bot that lets people in dsva.slack.com query the list (and prompts contributions when there's a miss).
/wtf A&A will generate this output
Your point about 5700 acronyms is well taken though! At some point this list got merged with a Healthcare list and contains a lot of terms that may seem off-topic depending where you sit at VA.
I was pointed to this repo by a team member. While we were discussing we managed to locate 2 other 'projects' trying to accomplish the same thing (acronyms). I imagine it's highly likely there may be even more than that. One of the other documents that I've been using was project-specific so it was more focused to what we might need on a daily basis, but now that I know that this project exists, I thought I'd make a suggestion which may turn more eyes toward it.
This suggestion is due to the fact that there are currently almost 5700 acronyms in acronyms.csv. If this capability is already available here, I haven't dug deep enough to find it. I think it would be useful if this project contained an actual app (just a SPA with a simple http server that could be run locally to support it). Then give people the ability to (1) create tags, (2) 'tag' acronyms for their projects / purposes, and (3) filter by tag / group of tags. I think to make it most flexible there should be a way to 'tag' acronyms with 'personal' tags (which would never end up in github) and 'shared' tags (which could be added to github via PR).
Another way to solve this would be to turn this repo into a 'dependency' for another repo that accomplished the above. That way that repo could be forked by individual projects and this repo wouldn't start being inundated with a ton of PRs. (ie. this repo would still receive PRs for specific acronyms, and the project-specific forks of the 'SPA-app' repo would each receive PRs when someone tagged an acronym for their project.)