changed app name by accident, now can't change back - app-store-connect

I have submitted an update to my app which is waiting for review, and I went in to edit the meta data, changed the title, and saved by accident. Now when I try to change it back to the original name, it says "The App Name you entered has already been used.". Does anyone know how to fix this? (hopefully without having to manually reject the submission).

The solution in this article suggests that you might be able to get it to work by changing the Default Language.
If you're not sure where to set the Default Language, have a look at the iTunes Connect Developers Guide.

I called App Store Developer Support (408-974-4897) and after about a week and a half they were able to free up my app name so I could use it again.

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How can I prevent overwriting changes to a ticket that was recently updated?

If I make an edit to a Trac ticket, but someone beat me to it, this message is displayed:
Ideally, I would read this message and figure out what I can overwrite and what I should not. But, depending on this message to keep users from overwriting what was submitted is not something that we should depend on:
This may sound a little harsh, but you'll see, when you do usability tests, that there are quite a few users who simply do not read words that you put on the screen. If you pop up an error box of any sort, they simply will not read it.
Is there a better way to prevent these overwrites in Trac - e.g., if a ticket has been modified while you were modifying it, you must refresh the page, etc?
Yes, if the server would send the page modified outside and if the javascript running in your browser could merge that into your local changes. But noone has implemented it in the current trac.

Opera Next extension autoupdate via update_url

I got problem with my company internal extension. They don't want to publish it, as it does gather data on external server. So I need to host it myself... but would like not to lose ability of autoupdate.
As far as I read I need to use update_url in manifest, but nothing more is said in Opera documentation...
"update_url": "http://path/to/updateInfo.xml", - as it is said in documentation page
Ok... and what should I put in that xml? Will it autoupdate or just notify users about new updates? Where do I put rest of updated files?
I tried to concat Opera itself about this question, but they don't give any contact information except something like if you have problem, ask on stackoverflow... so here I am.
If it does not work, I was thinking about really BAD method, using unsafe-eval and keeping newest version in local storage... but would rather like to avoid that.
In general the behavior is the same as for Chrome. You can base on this document: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/autoupdate

Youtrack Custom field for who raised Issue?

I was expecting this to be a simple thing, but I am not quite sure how to go about doing it.
Basically on the current project we are trialling YouTrack and the agile board is great, but they could do with knowing who raised certain issues in case they need to go question them further on the issue. However I cannot seem to find a simple way to display this information.
I presumed it would be a custom field of type user, but it appears that this would manually need filling in and would not just be able to be pre-populated by the user who is making the task.
So is this possible?
Currently you can view only the assigned user's name on a ticket in Agile board.
I've created a task based on your request http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-19118, you are welcome to vote and leave comments.
As a rough workaround, you can configure notifications on created issues in your projects.
In this way, developers will be notified about all created issues and their reporters.
For that, create a saved search (i.e created by: {Testers}), make this search visible to needed group (by clicking "Edit" on the saved search) and enable notification "on issue created" in user's "Profile". Also, user with admin permissions is able to allow this notifications for all needed users by himself(navigate to "Administration" area -> "Users" -> {user} ->"Profile").
Note, that you can receive notifications both via email and jabber.
Thank you.

Windows 8 store package fails on WACK when login to developer account

I'm trying to put a simple app on windows store. I made a fail attempt once, I submitted an app which failed to pass WACK, eventually it failed on submission too. Even then, when I try to package an app with my developer account logged in, I get a performance launch error.
Even on a blank app. also right after I create package logged in, my app's package name and provider fields on appmanifest are changes too. app's package name changes to the first app I submitted, and the provider changes to I guess my developer account's key.
I deleted my failed submission on dashboard, deleted all the names I reserved, including the failed one. But even when I reserve a new name and package my app with that name, my package name still changes to the very first one and fails on wack.
BUT, when I create package of my app WITHOUT logging in, I mean without associate with windows store, I can package my app with the name I want and pass the WACK. I hope anyone can help me with this.
Edit: C# application.
I had this happen too, it seems like WACK got confused and kept trying to verify the wrong version. The following steps resolved it for me:
Uninstall the app from your development PC (as in, go to start page,
right click on the app and select uninstall).
Reboot the dev PC.
Select "Local Machine" and "Release".
Start debugging wait for it to
have started up completely and then stop debugging.
Pretty sure that only one or two of those steps are actually needed, but not sure which ones.
I'm not completely sure I understand your issue, but let me try...
First, what is the failure that you got when you submitted to the Store and when you ran the WACK? You mentioned a "performance launch error". If you are failing the performance test, check out this article for tips to help. Some examples:
Package content locally (or cache it) when possible, so you don’t have to pull resources from a network during launch.
Load and do only what you need on launch. You can load other data and do other work asynchronously in the background or when you actually need it.
Use a "dirty bit" when saving data on suspend, so you only save data that has changed. (Rather than re-serializing your app’s state if that data hasn’t changed, create a Boolean flag variable (or “dirty bit”) which signals that your data has been modified, and only re-serialize when the data has changed.)
Use bytecode caching if you are developing in JavaScript, so each JS file has bytecode created once and not every time the app launches. To enable this, make sure all JavaScript files are UTF8 encoded with a byte-order mark (BOM) and are statically referenced in the root of your HTML start page.
If this is not the error that the WACK and your Store certification is failing with, please see this blog post and the related blog posts that it links to, to see if your failure is covered there.
Secondly, your issue with associating your code with your reserved name in the Windows Store:
also right after I create package logged in, my app's package name and
provider fields on appmanifest are changes too.
This behavior is expected. When you associate your app package with the Windows Store, it will change the "Package name" and the publisher in your appxmanifest. But that's okay! The "Package name" is just what the Windows Store uses as an internal identifier for your app package, and the "Package display name" (right below it in the appxmanifest) is what your end users will see. Set the "Package display name" to what you want.

iOS 5 Newsstandkit where does it store downloaded issues?

I'm trying to figure out more about iOS 5 newsstand kit and where it stores the downloaded issues, I have read the documentation and can see that there is an NKLibrary class but cannot see any indication on how to handle the downloads or where they are actually stored.
Thanks
Ok, so NewstandKit works a little differently than you might expect. Take a look at this for the nitty gritty: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/StoreKit/Reference/NewsstandKit_Framework/_index.html
But, Basically during the issue download the app should be passing its (the product's) information including it's NSURL an NKIssue via [NKIssue addAssetWithRequest]. Assuming the download doesn't fail and you have done the other Newstand stuff right, the product should be saved in the properly and you do not have to worry about dictating a specific location for it to be saved.
Another reason to not worry too much about where the issues are being saved, is that Newstand will delete old issues if the device's storage becomes limited.
Hope that helps.
Never worrying about the downloads's destination might not be the best way to deal with the problem. It's true that the destination is chosen automatically when downloading an asset. However, what's saved then is just a temporary file, which must be moved somewhere else and which might also need to be processed in whatever way.
Take a look at the "contentURL" property in NKIssue. This is the location which NewsstandKit recommends as the very destination of issue-related assets.
Cheers :)