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

Thanks for fixing that, Jay.  I went through the same confusion as Tony
when I submitted the "mischief" package.  Nice to know it's clearer, now.

Carl Eastlund

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> K, I just changed it
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
> >>
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> >
>
>
>
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