I work with small set of projects so lack of knowledge about naming convention for directory in software project file hierarchy which desired to hold project development.
I look to well-known projects (like Firefox, GCC, binutils, Linux, Emacs, VIM, etc) and collect some common directories (comments written myself so they don't pretend to be true...):
examples or samples to show practical usage of project in mini-scripts or mini-programs, or mini-configs.scripts, support - wrappers or copy of missing scripts/utilities to provide cross-environment build.tools - extra utilities to profile or debug project.contrib - user supplied scripts, configs, etc...misc, etc - uncategorised files (if you don't know the right place for it).config, extra - don't know...While src/, test/, build/, dist/, lib/ and other directories naming convention dictated by prog-langs/platforms/frameworks etc, this directories seems common for all type of projects.
So I look for guide (official or unofficial) for naming convention for directories that hold support files for project.
Most essential distinct from regular project files that these file isn't used in project release build, or is used in rare cases.
PS. Someone can argue that this is not SO question. But I have real task to commit several scripts (sql script to dump menu from DB, script which dump url mapping for web-controllers, etc) and look for directory name that shoud hold these files...
PPS. My effort to collect conventions:
There are: