[Geoserver-devel] Default name of new layer group

I’m new to geoserver but I ran into a little issue when I was experimenting with map layers:

Would it be possible to change the default name of a new layer group, currently “<new_layer_group>”, to something that doesn’t contain the <> characters?

I had created a new layer group (leaving the default name) in the WMS. When I shutdown tomcat and tried to start it up again the XML for geoserver couldn’t be parsed. It was a little annoying to track down the XML and change it.