<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Ben Coman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com" target="_blank">btc@openinworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Ben Coman <<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com">btc@openinworld.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Dimitris Chloupis<br>
> <<a href="mailto:kilon.alios@gmail.com">kilon.alios@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> ah ok i see now, actually you will get empty results in the search because github searches for repo first<br>
>><br>
>> openSmalltalk is not the name of a repo its the name of the user so you have to click to user and it will it to you<br>
>><br>
>> so its both found by google and github<br>
><br>
> Ahh. Thats quite an insight that I hadn't noticed before. Also the<br>
> first 8 results searching github for "vm" are 8 different projects.<br>
> One of the reasons for moving to github is get more visibility. I'm<br>
> afraid like this that we'll be lost in the noise.<br>
><br>
> Actually when I made my fork of the repo, I'd noticed the project<br>
> seemed to lose its identity as...<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/bencoman/vm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/bencoman/vm</a><br>
> but I didn't worry to much about it since "I" knew what it was. But<br>
> confusion in the public arena on github is more serious.<br>
><br>
> Since its still quite early days on github, can I ask consideration be<br>
> given to renaming the repo so we have...<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm</a><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/bencoman/opensmalltalk-vm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/bencoman/opensmalltalk-vm</a><br>
> That it will show up in both searches for "smalltalk" and "vm"<br>
> I think this is important to getting the most long term value out git & github.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm is considered too unwieldly,</div><div>some alternatives could be:</div><div>* OpenSmalltalk/osvm (this has a single conflicting exact match on github [last updated 4 years ago], and a four substring matches)</div><div>* OpenSmalltalk/ostvm (for which github return no results) </div><div><br></div><div>The reason I suggest this is the old real estate adage "location, location, location"</div><div>has a corollary these days with internet search of "uniqueness, uniqueness, uniqueness".</div><div>Then again, its only a small thing and there is plenty of other important things to do. </div><div> </div><div>cheers -ben</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
</span>Github help pages indicate existing infrastructure should continue to<br>
work to the old name, easing the transition.<br>
<a href="https://help.github.com/articles/renaming-a-repository/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.github.com/articles/renaming-a-repository/</a><br>
<br>
For authorised users, this should link where the rename can be done..<br>
<a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/settings" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/settings</a><br>
<br>
cheers -ben<br>
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> cheers -ben<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:35 PM Phil (list) <<a href="mailto:pbpublist@gmail.com">pbpublist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 11:05 +0200, Denis Kudriashov wrote:<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Hi.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Maybe I am super stupid. But I just tried to find new GitHub<br>
>>> > repository for VM and I can't.<br>
>>> > Of course I found it here but Google and GitHub not show me any<br>
>>> > results.<br>
>>> > At least GitHub surprised me. Is anything correct with repo settings?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Searching for 'OpenSmalltalk' got me the GitHub repo as the 3rd result<br>
>>> with Google. Since it's a new repo, perhaps it's still being added to<br>
>>> the indexes and/or propagating out through their infrastructure and/or<br>
>>> their algorithms are still deciding where it fits in the search<br>
>>> results? GitHub can also take several days before new projects can be<br>
>>> found via their search.<br>
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