New spec form has undescribed no-capitals constraint

[Robert Collins]

In the 'new spec' page, the rules for 'name' do not mention that capital letters are not permitted.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As I said in bug 3358, I think the best approach here (unlike in other places where we ask for a name) is to allow capital letters. That way if specs are on an InterCaps-using wiki (as they often will be), the same name can be used on Launchpad as on the wiki.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Would we allow capital letters in URLs only here, and nowhere else?

Or would we allows URLs to be entered in mixed-case, save it as mixed-case, but allow traversing on any case? If so, we'd need special validation code to ensure uniqueness.

I think this latter solution is better, so if you agree I'll sic the ninja on it.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Only here and nowhere else, I think. Wiki pages are a special case.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I'd rather keep the "name" rules consistent everywhere. so that would suggest that they be stored lowercase, and down-shifted always internally.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 09:26 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> I'd rather keep the "name" rules consistent everywhere. so that would
> suggest that they be stored lowercase, and down-shifted always
> internally.

That would be fine by me. The main reason I filed the bug was the
confusion that arose due to the lack of description of the rules for the
form.

-Rob
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[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

Diogo, if you haven't touched it yet I'd be interested to take it.

[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

assigning to self per discussion with Diogo

[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

So after asking Kiko it seems that the best way currently to fix this is:
17:03 #launchpad: < kiko> sivang, probably just making it clear that they need to be all-lowers, and a decent error message, would do the
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[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

the trivial patch is in awaiting review at kiko's now.