Lesson title change

[chennesy]

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Following a recent discussion of the @LibraryCarpentry/curriculum-advisors, we wanted to request that the maintainers consider changing the title of the Regular Expressions lesson to remove "Introduction to Working with Data." This follows some infrastructural shifts in the LC curriculum, including plans to develop new lesson pathways that focus on themes (e.g., Cataloging & Metadata, Data Wrangling, Archives & Digital Libraries).

The CAC discussed possible ideas for other titles, but thought you all might have other (better) ideas. We considered variations on Data Wrangling with Regular Expressions (Manipulating Text with Regular Expressions, Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions). Or simply Introduction to Regular Expressions.

[kevintfrench]

I support "Introduction to Regular Expressions" due to its simplicity; it’s also how we’ve traditionally referred to this lesson when teaching. Additionally, I don’t believe @Freddy2304 is currently active.

[jt14den]

@kevintfrench can we go ahead and make the change or would you rather submit the PR?

[kevintfrench]

@jt14den I would appreciate it if you would make the change. I'm just recovering from surgery on my left arm and typing is a chore.

[jt14den]

I made a PRs for changing lesson name in config.yml, the readme, and index. @chennesy do you know the recommended way to change the actual repo name from lc-data-intro to lc-intro-regex? or should we not worry about that?

[kevintfrench]

I wrote Toby Hodges for a hand with this because I wasn't sure how to change the repo either.

[tobyhodges]

The repository can be renamed, and this has the major advantage of keeping the URL aligned with the title of the lesson. However, although GitHub will handle redirections automatically from the old repository name to the new repository name, it does not do the same with the Pages sites built from repositories. I.e. if you rename the repository, https://librarycarpentry/lc-data-intro/ will return a 404 error.

The way we have handled this problem with other lessons that have moved (e.g. when they move from the Incubator to the Lab) was to set up a placeholder repository at the old location, to serve a Pages site that will redirect people who try to use the old lesson URL to the new location. Happy to take care of this.

Finally, is an equivalent change planned for https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/lc-data-intro-archives, @jt14den @chennesy?

[chennesy]

Thanks at @tobyhodges. I think changing the repo name (with a redirect from the old one) is a great idea, and we'd love your help with that. And if there aren't plans for a more advanced regex lesson in the future, we could drop intro from the new path, just sticking with lc-regex.

In my opinion, we would not need a corresponding name change for the archives data intro. That lesson includes three episodes that frame the ways in which data topics are relevant to archives work, before getting into Regex so the title seems to be a better fit. Maybe something we should discuss in a 2025 LC-CAC though?