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.mccar...@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 <to...@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 > > ____________________ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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