After two frustrating failures to upload my latest opus (PubKit) to the Extras, I’ve given up for today.
First time through, I enter all the details in the fields as far as screenshots. Not without difficulty - the rich-text boxes promise to let me use a set of tags, but when I go into HTML to enter a few headings and hyperlinks and return, the lines come back with double paras and no wrap. I get as far as the screenshots, and accidentally select the wrong file. I click Browse again to correct it: wham! back to the Extras page. Goodbye ten minutes of brain pain effort.
--Lunch (slight mood improvement) --
Try again. Start by entering package name, then straight to the screenshots this time. Add four or five without incident. Return to the top and start entering other details. Notice package name has disappeared - click in entry field. Wham! back to the Extras page again.
It’s all very well having fancy graphs for number of downloads etc., but can we please make sure the basics work reliably? Am I alone in having problems uploading Extras (or being unsure I understand all the stuff about versions)?
I had problems when I put pkBlog into the repository some time ago, particularly with trying to format the descriptions. I thought things looked better now, and at least some explanations have been added, and the rich-text entry was promising. If people are suffering this kind of failure, it will just put them off sharing their efforts, it seems to me.
KP
