This is absolutely my fault and I apologize profusely!

I just discovered that I gained the ability to promote projects per this ticket and went to promote the project discussed in that application. I saw all the warnings about it not being able to be undone but, quite obviously I didn't read the form fully, because I missed the part where I was supposed to change the shortname from the integer it was assigned as a sandbox project to the real name (which in this case should be "lingwo"):

http://drupal.org/project/1073982

All the information WAS given on the form and I should have read it better. If I were to make a UI suggestion, it would be to not have the shortname default to anything! So that idiots like myself have to tangle with filling in this field instead of just naively clicking "submit".

I understand that this permission is given with a lot of trust (for which I went through a 4 month process!) and I already messed that up. :-/ But if it is possible to change the shortname or at least delete my project that would be much appreciated.

Best regards (and biggest apologies!),
David.

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Component: Git » Drupal.org module
Category: task » support

Trying to find the appropriate category/component for this..

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killes@www.drop.org commented

I am afraid I can't change this in the UI either. I am not sure what would happen if I'd change it in the database and I'd rather not find out.

To me the only option seems to be to delete that project and create a new one.

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Thanks for reading my issue and responding so quickly!

I don't think changing this in the database is a good idea -- the shortname affects git as well. I can create a new sandbox project for this and push the git repo I have locally to it, so I won't loose any code history. I should be able to move the issues in the issue queue too. Not that there is much important in there but there was stuff from the project application process.

Do you have permission to delete a project? I don't appear to be able to.

But in general, I'm not sure if me running around creating more projects is a good solution. I'm a little afraid to touch that button again to be honest. I dunno. What do you think?

Best regards,
David.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

I think that's the only solution there is. I've deleted the old project.

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Hrm. Well, thanks for your fast action! It would have been nice to copy the description and move the items in the issue first. But I guess it doesn't really matter.

Thanks so much and I'll try to be more careful before creating another project! (Which maybe be a while from now, I've got to get over the hangover from messing this one up...)

Regards,
David.

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Status: Active » Fixed

Marking fixed.

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Project: Drupal.org infrastructure » Drupal.org site moderators
Component: Drupal.org module » Project problem

To notice that you can create a full project, now. There is no need to create a sandbox project, and then convert it into a full project.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.