Launchpad itself

"Name" is a misleading field when registering a project

Bug #131036 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Barry Warsaw
Launchpad itself 2.2.5

Bug Description

When registering a project <https://launchpad.net/projects/+new>, the first information you are asked for is "Name:" -- but you are *not* supposed to enter the project's name in that field. Rather, you are supposed to enter a unique, lower-case, hyphenated, possibly-abbreviated variant of the project's name, such as can be used in URLs.

It is odious to be asking for "Name" and expecting something other than the project's name. Therefore the field should be renamed, and if possible it should be auto-generated from the actual name as entered in a previous field (whichever field survives bug 4449).

Revision history for this message
Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote : Re: [Bug 131036] "Name" is a misleading field when registering a project

There are many other places in which we ask for a 'Name' when in fact we
mean a unique, lower-case, hyphenated identifier inside Launchpad. How
about changing the label of all these 'Name' fields to 'Launchpad ID' and
the existing 'Display Name' fields to 'Name'?

Revision history for this message
Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) wrote :

I like the idea of automatically generating a suggestion for the "Name" but allowing the user to manually alter it, if they prefer.

I'm definitely +1 on renaming the "Name" label. If we use "Launchpad ID" would that be too ambiguous? Would some users pop their own Launchpad ID in there? Perhaps if we used, "Unique project ID", or similar.

Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Agreed with Matthew Revell. "Project ID", "Blueprint ID", etc, depending on what it is you're registering/changing.

Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Confirmed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Samuel Bronson (naesten) wrote :

Another good thing to call it is "URL name", because it's the version that shows up in URLs. That's what Ohloh does on https://www.ohloh.net/p/new

Revision history for this message
Samuel Bronson (naesten) wrote :

Here's a screenshot so you don't have to create an account on Ohloh just to see what I'm talking about.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
assignee: nobody → Barry Warsaw (barry)
milestone: none → 2.2.5
tags: added: story-guided-project-registration
removed: registry
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: 2.2.5 → 2.2.4
Barry Warsaw (barry)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: 2.2.4 → 2.2.5
Revision history for this message
Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

This will be resolved when bug 362877 lands. It will be called URL.

Barry Warsaw (barry)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Barry Warsaw (barry)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.