Great, thank you very much!
- Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:44:45PM +0200, Tobias Polzin wrote:
> > Thank you for being willing to do as much as you did.
>
> Today, we decided to change our name to explab.
>
> > It's quite maddening
> > that sourceforge makes it so difficult to change a project name.
>
> When you start a project, they explicitly warn you about that.
> It's a complex system with a rich functionality. It's obvious
> that there have to be some restrictions.
>
> > I haven't
> > dealt very much with sourceforge, but it sounds like the web interface is
> > only set up to request certain small changes.
>
> Well, I like the interface a lot. For many things that you typically have
> to do, it's practical and although the functionality is complex, dealing
> with it is quite intuitive. But changing the name is obviously not
> a "typical thing to do". :-)
>
> > Is there a way to just
> > explain what it is you want to do? Perhaps the support staff would do it
> > for you if you described it, and maybe they'd be more willing if you told
> > them why you needed it done. Tell them if you look up the exptools name
> > on freshmeat.net it lists my project.
>
> I asked them once again for some help. If they can't do it, we will do it
> "by hand". I will not be too much work, compared to the time
> we have been spend discussing about the name change :-)
>
> Tobias Polzin
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