Changeset 8ccd88f for asadb/groups

Timestamp:

Jun 3, 2013, 5:33:53 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

Alex Dehnert <adehnert@…>

Branches:

master, space-access, stable, stage

Children:

cfde3dc

Parents:

cbd22b4

git-author:

Alex Dehnert <adehnert@…> (06/03/13 05:33:53)

git-committer:

Alex Dehnert <adehnert@…> (06/03/13 05:33:53)

Message:

Add help text about Athena lockername selection

As mentioned in ASA-#234, some people starting groups pick excessively long
locker names. This adds help text to try to alleviate that tendency (and also
to reduce the number of invalid characters people submit).

Unfortunately, enforcing this well seems difficult --- we want the SQL database
to support longer lockernames (some groups have org lockers instead of activity
lockers, and can therefore have longer names, for one), but have the frontend
(sometimes) reject it. It's not clear how to do this in Django.

File:

• asadb/groups/views.py (modified) (1 diff)

asadb/groups/views.py

@@ -631 +631 @@
         self.fields['constitution_url'].help_text = "Please put a copy of your finalized constitution on a publicly-accessible website (e.g. your group's, or your own, Public folder), and link to it in the box above."
         self.fields['athena_locker'].required = True
+        self.fields['athena_locker'].help_text = "In general, this is limited to twelve characters. You should stick to letters, numbers, and hyphens. (Underscores and dots are also acceptable, but may cause problems in some situations.)"
+
+        # Specifically, if the group ends up wanting to use scripts.mit.edu,
+        # they will currently be assigned locker.scripts.mit.edu. If they try
+        # to use foo.bar, then https://foo.bar.scripts.mit.edu/ will produce a
+        # certificate name mismatch. Officially, underscores are not allowed in
+        # hostnames, so foo_.scripts.mit.edu may fail with some software.
 
     class Meta(GroupCreateForm.Meta):