[OH-Dev] [issue799] Github tracker form should validate github_name and github_repo

[Nick DiRienzo]

It would be nice to have just a paste link and go style for submitting
trackers: a lot easier and quicker for the project owners. If we start this
approach with GitHub it would be nice to have things eventually consistent
for the other tracker systems out there.


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Asheesh Laroia <bugs at openhatch.org> wrote:

>
> New submission from Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>:
>
> A well-meaning user entered the following information as the information
> about
> privly-firefox, hoping to get volunteer opportunities crawled by the
> backend:
>
> * Github name: privly/privly-firefox
>
> * Github repo: https://github.com/privly/privly-firefox
>
> The right information would have been:
>
> * Github name: privly
>
> * Github repo: privly-firefox
>
> One approach would be that we could validate that "Github name" and "Github
> repo" have no / characters in them.
>
> But, an even better way occurs to me: given that the URL
> <https://github.com/privly/privly-firefox> is so easy to enter there,
> maybe we
> should just ask users to enter that, and then behind the scenes we
> validate it
> and break it up into its component pieces, but don't show those component
> pieces
> to the user.
>
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> messages: 3539
> nosy: paulproteus
> priority: bug
> status: unread
> title: Github tracker form should validate github_name and github_repo
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