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

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
> Let's say I want to submit Typed Racket as a package.
> Is the package name "Typed Racket" or typed-racket ?

"Typed Racket" is not valid because it contains a space.

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

I just fixed it

>   /Jens Axel
>
>
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> 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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>>>
>>>
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