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Is there any convention for package names ? Should we stick to Java conventions (for example `reverse.domain.name.myapp.mymodule`), or is it possible to use shorter names such as `myapp.mymodule` ?

two things to consider:
1. Kotlin doesn't _force_ you to match the package name to the actual path of the file, buut...IMO they should be consistent. if it's `com.company.foo`, it should be in `com/company/foo/` directory. (though as I said, doesn't have to be)
2. Kotlin's `internal` is moderately different from package private, which if anything means you can create _more_ packages internally without making everything be public.
as for your actual question...I'd still namespace it by domain.

that said I think we fall into the good practices of if you're not coding for java, it's still ok to be nice and be compatible with it in case someone else wants your code.

Istr the JB convention is to remove the trailing empty directories from the source paths (so if a top-level class is com.example.thing.Main that’s in src/main/kotlin/Main.kt and com.example.thing.util.Utils would be in src/main/kotlin/util/Utils.kt)

I have memories of encountering Scala classes at work called “util.Error” … of course, multiple conflicting versions of this made its way into internal libraries eventually