[racket] Misleading label when registering with pkg.racket-lang.org

Let's say I want to submit Typed Racket as a package.
Is the package name "Typed Racket" or typed-racket ?

I just got a 503 from pkg.racket-lang.org, so I check whether
it is clear from the context what is meant.

  /Jens Axel



2013/4/6 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>

> I just tried clicking thru this too and I think just putting "Package
> Name" near the top where it says "Name" is a suitable fix.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> After having clicked on a link that says "Contribute a Package", I
>> don't think it is unreasonable to think that a user would know they
>> had to give the information about the package, including fundamental
>> information like its name.
>>
>> If you still disagree, I think it would be easy to submit a patch:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606
>>
>> If you'd like, I can make the patch myself, but I think it may be more
>> productive to figure out the deeper reason why it is hard to tell that
>> "Contribute a Package" goes to a package information form and fix
>> that, rather than just changing a text string.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > I just tried to register a package with pkg.racket-lang.org. First I
>> > registered an account, by typing in an email address and fresh password.
>> >
>> > The next step was a webpage prompting me for "Name" and some other
>> > fields. I didn't realise it was asking me for the *package* name, and
>> > thought it was looking for *my* name! Fortunately, it rejected the
>> > package name "Tony Garnock-Jones" because it had a hyphen in it.
>> >
>> > It took me until I was ready to post an angry message pointing at
>> >
>> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
>> > to finally realise it wanted me to type the *package* name.
>> >
>> > I think the form should have the field label "Name" replaced with
>> > "Package Name", to make life easier for klutzes like myself :-)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >   Tony
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