K, I just changed it On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@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.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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