<div dir="ltr">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. <div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div>Carl Eastlund</div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> K, I just changed it <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> 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: >> >> >> <a href="https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606" target="_blank">https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606</a> >> >> 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 <<a href="mailto:tonyg@ccs.neu.edu">tonyg@ccs.neu.edu</a>> >> wrote: >> > I just tried to register a package with <a href="http://pkg.racket-lang.org" target="_blank">pkg.racket-lang.org</a>. 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 >> > >> > <a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/" target="_blank">http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/</a> >> > 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 >> > ____________________ >> > Racket Users list: >> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University >> <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> >> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> > > -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div></div></div>