[Box-Admins] [Board] Change the description of vm-dev?

[Fabio Niephaus]

Hi everyone,

Just a nit but shouldn't the description read "OpenSmalltalk ..." instead
of "Open Smalltalk ..."?

See http://opensmalltalk.org/ and https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk.

Fabio

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:22 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> Thanks Bert,
>
> My apologies, I must have been blind.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > This is it:
> >
> > But since I was already there I simply changed it :)
> >
> > Directly under that field is a longer "description" field. It's currently
> > blank. We may or may not want to put a link to opensmalltalk.org or
> GitHub
> > there. This would show up in the "About Vm-dev" section at
> > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/vm-dev
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
> > On 5 April 2018 at 10:00, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Right. You don't want to change the name, but the description of the
> list.
> > >
> > > - Bert -
> > >
> > > On 5 April 2018 at 09:40, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Why is it that hard? It is not the "identification" but rather the
> > >> "description" of the list. The id is "vm-dev", right?
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >> Marcel
> > >>
> > >> Am 05.04.2018 02:49:43 schrieb David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:43:35AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > >> > Hi Dave,
> > >> >
> > >> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > I have two assignments from today's meeting:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Assignment 1:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Per the note below, change the identification of the vm-dev list
> from
> > >> this:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > "Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > to this:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > "Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I may need to get help on this, as I do not see anything in the
> list
> > >> admin
> > >> > > pages that lets me make the change, so probably it is configured
> > >> elsewhere
> > >> > > in mailman.
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > See
> > >> > https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the
> > >> %20name%20of%20%28rename%29%20a%20list%3F
> > >> > It's not pretty ;-)
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Eliot,
> > >>
> > >> Oh dear, that is definitely not what I had in mind. I was hoping for
> > >> something more like "s/Squeak/Open Smalltalk/".
> > >>
> > >> I'll take this over to the box-admins list and see if there is a
> > >> practical
> > >> solution.
> > >>
> > >> Levente, Tobias, box-admins:
> > >>
> > >> Following discussion with the board today, I would like to change the
> > >> identification
> > >> for the vm-dev mailing list to be "Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine
> > >> Development Discussion"
> > >> ("Open Smalltalk" rather than specifically "Squeak").
> > >>
> > >> I cannot see a way to do this from the administrator's page for vm-dev
> > >> (which I
> > >> control), so I suspect it may be something that can be done in the
> > >> MailMail list
> > >> configurations. Can someone help, or point me in the right direction?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >>
> > >> Dave
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
>
>
>
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