Looking at this posting you see that my title is “openSUSE Program Manager” but this is not correct anymore and I tried changing it in my profile - I changed the field occupation (see https://forums.opensuse.org/members/a_jaeger.html ) but this does not have an effect. Is there another option to change this display of my title?
On 2013-04-10 09:56, a jaeger wrote:
>
> Looking at this posting you see that my title is “openSUSE Program
> Manager” but this is not correct anymore and I tried changing it in my
> profile - I changed the field occupation (see
> https://forums.opensuse.org/members/a_jaeger.html ) but this does not
> have an effect. Is there another option to change this display of my
> title?
AFAIK forum users can not change that. I can’t change mine, which is
only an indicator of the number of posts I made.
You can change your “avatar”: click on “settings” at the top right. Also
the “profile picture”. I don’t really know the difference, as I access
the forum via nntp, with Thunderbird. I don’t see those things.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
This can only be done by the high brass of these forums. We will try to get the message through.
Andreas, we reported the post, will draw Kim / admin’s attention. Maybe it’s better to PM Kim Gronemann, and tell him what the desired title should be.
On 2013-04-10 15:16, Knurpht wrote:
>
> Andreas, we reported the post, will draw Kim / admin’s attention. Maybe
> it’s better to PM Kim Gronemann, and tell him what the desired title
> should be.
You could also consider how to show openSUSE membership status. I have
it, but no way to show it there - except my signature, of course.
The list of members is public, so it could be automatically applied,
somehow.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
It’s not required for membership of the forum.
Where did you get that hat? 
Andreas, see your email. - Kim
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Kim - 4/10/2013 9:33:15 AM
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:23:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The list of members is public, so it could be automatically applied,
> somehow.
This suggestion has been made before, unfortunately, doing that mapping
isn’t high on our priority list as it would require custom code and
interaction with the vBulletin database. Not all members have an account
here, so we’d have to check every single member every single time, which
means if there were overrides (such as forum staff with custom titles),
that would overwrite their status every time unless an exception were
coded.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Now I’m a newcomer - I guess I deserved that. But it actually reflects better what I’m here at the forums 
Thanks, the change is fine!
Andreas
On 2013-04-10 17:36, consused wrote:
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> robin_listas;2546350 Wrote:
>>
>> You could also consider how to show openSUSE membership status.
> It’s not required for membership of the forum.
No, but it would be nice to display it. Not that openSUSE memberships
fills much of a purpose, IMHO…
> Where did you get that hat? 
The avatar? I just played around a bit. It is on the standard list,
there are about 300 of them. The browsing is tedious, though, only about
6 are shown each time.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-04-10 17:39, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:23:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> The list of members is public, so it could be automatically applied,
>> somehow.
>
> This suggestion has been made before, unfortunately, doing that mapping
> isn’t high on our priority list as it would require custom code and
> interaction with the vBulletin database. Not all members have an account
> here, so we’d have to check every single member every single time, which
> means if there were overrides (such as forum staff with custom titles),
> that would overwrite their status every time unless an exception were
> coded.
Oh. 
Every time? A weekly, even monthly, cron job would suffice, perhaps :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Welcome, newcomer.
(I couldn’t resist).
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:57:05 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> This suggestion has been made before, unfortunately, doing that mapping
>> isn’t high on our priority list as it would require custom code and
>> interaction with the vBulletin database. Not all members have an
>> account here, so we’d have to check every single member every single
>> time, which means if there were overrides (such as forum staff with
>> custom titles), that would overwrite their status every time unless an
>> exception were coded.
>
> Oh.
>
> Every time? A weekly, even monthly, cron job would suffice, perhaps :-?
Yes, every time - because if we ran through and user “A” wasn’t a forum
member but was a project member, the next time we’d have to check them
again. It’d be more efficient to do that than to maintain a table of
“here’s who we already have updated”, and then there are the exceptions.
Yes, a cron job would suffice - the bigger problem is in messing with the
database tables - if/when vBulletin updates their database schema (which
is quite complex), we’d have to regress the software update against it to
make sure our code wouldn’t break anything before applying any update.
That’s the larger concern.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:56:01 +0000, a jaeger wrote:
> Now I’m a newcomer - I guess I deserved that.:-= But it actually
> reflects better what I’m here at the forums
>
> Thanks, the change is fine!
> Andreas
Odd, I thought Kim had changed it to the requested title. I’ll get in
touch with him and see what he did - I think I know what was missed. 
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
You should, close by your name in the signature.
> Where did you get that hat?
The avatar? I just played around a bit. It is on the standard list,
there are about 300 of them. The browsing is tedious, though, only about
6 are shown each time.
Yes, the hat or the hair in particular! Not seen it before, so it gets the job done i.e. “Carlos was here”. 
Your two right “feet” returned along with all the other badges. I quite liked it without the badges. I don’t much like the feet, so I will need an exit strategy before they arrive here.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:32:18 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:56:01 +0000, a jaeger wrote:
>
>> Now I’m a newcomer - I guess I deserved that.:-= But it actually
>> reflects better what I’m here at the forums
>>
>> Thanks, the change is fine!
>> Andreas
>
> Odd, I thought Kim had changed it to the requested title. I’ll get in
> touch with him and see what he did - I think I know what was missed.
>
> Jim
I see now that where it’s at is what ultimately was requested.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Hey Jim Henderson,
>I think I know what was missed.
You missed my conversation with Andreas.
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Kim - 4/10/2013 11:41:20 AM
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:42:06 +0000, kgroneman wrote:
> Hey Jim Henderson,
>
>>I think I know what was missed.
>
> You missed my conversation with Andreas.
I’m up to speed now.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
You can say that again !
Hey Jim Henderson,
>I’m up to speed now.
And it’s usually me that has to try to keep up at the rear…
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Kim - 4/10/2013 12:44:17 PM