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

[David T. Lewis]

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
> >>
> >>
> >