Welcome; Manager Beta
David E. Wheeler
Many thanks for signing up for the mail list. I'm pleased to announce a limited beta of PGXN Manager, the app for uploading extension distributions to PGXN. I created and uploaded my first extension last night. Of course, I messed it up and had to fix it, but it was my fault, not the app's. If you want to check it out, you can download it from /dist/pair/pair-0.1.0.pgz on any mirror. The mirrors are listed in http://master.pgxn.org/meta/mirrors.json.
So, if you'd like to get an account and start uploading your own distributions, here's what you do:
* Go to http://manager.pgxn.org/ click "Request Account," and register for an account
* An administrator will approve your request. Shouldn't take long; an email is sent telling me that you've registered so I can just hit it quickly.
* Once the account is approved, you'll get an email with a link to set your password and login.
* Once you're logged in, you can upload a distribution by clicking the "Upload a Distribution" link in the left nav. Unsurprisingly.
That's it. Your distribution will be indexed and distributed to the master mirror, and from there it will be replicated to the other mirrors as they rsync from master.
Well, okay, that's not *quite* it. There is one rule for distributions: They must contain a META.json file in the root directory. If you download the pair distribution, you can see a decent example. There's also an example in the PGXN Meta Spec:
http://github.com/theory/pgxn/wiki/PGXN-Meta-Spec
Or, more to the point, I blogged about how to create an extension distribution today:
http://blog.pgxn.org/post/1353947079/creating-distributions
Give that a read and then Release it!
Any questions, please do ask on the list or on #pgxn on Freenode.
Best,
David
David E. Wheeler
> Hello gang,
>
> Many thanks for signing up for the mail list. I'm pleased to announce a limited beta of PGXN Manager, the app for uploading extension distributions to PGXN. I created and uploaded my first extension last night. Of course, I messed it up and had to fix it, but it was my fault, not the app's. If you want to check it out, you can download it from /dist/pair/pair-0.1.0.pgz on any mirror. The mirrors are listed in http://master.pgxn.org/meta/mirrors.json.
>
> So, if you'd like to get an account and start uploading your own distributions, here's what you do:
>
> * Go to http://manager.pgxn.org/ click "Request Account," and register for an account
And now I've fixed the form URI to actually work.
Sorry if any of you tried to register and got a 404. Should be fixed now.
Best,
David
Hitoshi Harada
password which I don't know. Am I missing something?
Regards
2010/10/20 David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>:
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Hitoshi Harada
David E. Wheeler
> My account was approved, but password reset page ask for the current
> password which I don't know. Am I missing something?
Likely I messed something up. Working on it…
David
David E. Wheeler
I just sent myself the email, which pointed to
http://manager.pgxn.org/account/reset/$token
The two fields are:
New Password
Verify Password
Were those not the two fields you saw for your confirmation link? Or did you get a different URI?
Thanks,
David
Hitoshi Harada
I've got https URI, where I am asked for user/pass in a browser dialog
box (like basic or digest). I found http works for me.
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Hitoshi Harada
David E. Wheeler
> I've got https URI, where I am asked for user/pass in a browser dialog
> box (like basic or digest). I found http works for me.
Ah, okay. Fixing…
David
David E. Wheeler
Okay, I think it's fixed. I just approved Damien's account. Damien, please let me know if you have any trouble getting in.
Best,
David
damien clochard
Hash: SHA1
Le 20/10/2010 19:14, David E. Wheeler a �crit :
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:47 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Hitoshi Harada wrote:
>>
>>> I've got https URI, where I am asked for user/pass in a browser dialog
>>> box (like basic or digest). I found http works for me.
>>
>> Ah, okay. Fixing�
>
> Okay, I think it's fixed. I just approved Damien's account. Damien, please let me know if you have any trouble getting in.
>
i get the following error right after the "reset password page"
##############
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request POST /account/reset/4bzBV.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
#############
going back to the reset, when trying again the paswword modification
form, i get :
##############
Sorry, but that password reset token has expired.
##############
so far as i can tell my new password is not active
Another problem i see is that it's not clear at all what field you use
as username. The registration form has 3 fields 'name', 'address' and
'nickname' it's unclear which one is the login. Unfortunatelly the
registration mail doesn't help as it doesn't contain the username.
This is quite confusing.
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Damien CLOCHARD
Directeur Adjoint
Cel : +33 (0)6 74 15 56 78
http://dalibo.com - http://dalibo.org
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David E. Wheeler
>> Okay, I think it's fixed. I just approved Damien's account. Damien, please let me know if you have any trouble getting in.
>>
>
> i get the following error right after the "reset password page"
>
> ##############
> Proxy Error
>
> The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
> The proxy server could not handle the request POST /account/reset/4bzBV.
>
> Reason: Error reading from remote server
> #############
>
> going back to the reset, when trying again the paswword modification
> form, i get :
>
> ##############
> Sorry, but that password reset token has expired.
> ##############
>
> so far as i can tell my new password is not active
Odd. I wonder if you happened to hit it when it was down for a minute or two earlier today. I just created a new account and it went without a hitch. Have you tried logging in with the password you entered? If it doesn't work, have it send you another token here:
http://manager.pgxn.org/account/forgotten
> Another problem i see is that it's not clear at all what field you use
> as username. The registration form has 3 fields 'name', 'address' and
> 'nickname' it's unclear which one is the login. Unfortunatelly the
> registration mail doesn't help as it doesn't contain the username.
>
> This is quite confusing.
Sorry about that. I can add the nickname to the email. That's the username (I never really cared for the term "username"). I'll look at whether I can make it clearer in the form that it's the username. Right now that information is in the "title" attribbute of the field, and if you tried to submit without it, it'd tell you, like so:
David E. Wheeler
> Sorry about that. I can add the nickname to the email. That's the username (I never really cared for the term "username"). I'll look at whether I can make it clearer in the form that it's the username. Right now that information is in the "title" attribbute of the field, and if you tried to submit without it, it'd tell you, like so:
>
> Sorry for the confusion, though. Will work on making things clearer.
I've just pushed out a change that adds the hints in paragraphs under each form field. Have a look:
http://manager.pgxn.org/account/register
Shift-reload to update the CSS. Does that alleviate the confusion?
Thanks,
David
damien clochard
Hash: SHA1
Le 20/10/2010 23:38, David E. Wheeler a �crit :
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:02 PM, damien clochard wrote:
>
>>> Okay, I think it's fixed. I just approved Damien's account. Damien, please let me know if you have any trouble getting in.
>>>
>>
>> i get the following error right after the "reset password page"
>>
>> ##############
>> Proxy Error
>>
>> The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
>> The proxy server could not handle the request POST /account/reset/4bzBV.
>>
>> Reason: Error reading from remote server
>> #############
>>
>> going back to the reset, when trying again the paswword modification
>> form, i get :
>>
>> ##############
>> Sorry, but that password reset token has expired.
>> ##############
>>
>> so far as i can tell my new password is not active
>
> Odd. I wonder if you happened to hit it when it was down for a minute or two earlier today. I just created a new account and it went without a hitch. Have you tried logging in with the password you entered? If it doesn't work, have it send you another token here:
>
> http://manager.pgxn.org/account/forgotten
>
Everything worked smoothly this time. I can log in. Thanks !
>> Another problem i see is that it's not clear at all what field you use
>> as username. The registration form has 3 fields 'name', 'address' and
>> 'nickname' it's unclear which one is the login. Unfortunatelly the
>> registration mail doesn't help as it doesn't contain the username.
>>
>> This is quite confusing.
>
> Sorry about that. I can add the nickname to the email. That's the username (I never really cared for the term "username"). I'll look at whether I can make it clearer in the form that it's the username. Right now that information is in the "title" attribbute of the field, and if you tried to submit without it, it'd tell you, like so:
>
The registration form is better now with the paragraph under each field.
i forgot to give my impressions but the overall look and feel of the
website is simple, very classy and quite effective.
keep up the good work ! ;-)
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Damien CLOCHARD
Directeur Adjoint
Cel : +33 (0)6 74 15 56 78
http://dalibo.com - http://dalibo.org
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David E. Wheeler
> Everything worked smoothly this time. I can log in. Thanks !
Yay!
> The registration form is better now with the paragraph under each field.
Yeah, I think it's an improvement, too.
> i forgot to give my impressions but the overall look and feel of the
> website is simple, very classy and quite effective.
>
> keep up the good work ! ;-)
Thank you!
I look forward to seeing uploads from all you folks!
Best,
David