[Savannah-hackers] Beginner's howto revisite

[Jean-Philippe Boisseau]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:47, Loic Dachary wrote:
 
> >>> There is no need to include thanks for a small document like this, IMHO.

That was not exactly my opinion. I deleted this line, but be sure it
will come back when the document will be complete. (is the "small
document" a good argument? Is it compatible with HO? ;)
        
> >>> your GNU/Linux or BSD distribution

Ouch. I forgot this Howto will be stored on a gnu.org server ;)
In fact, I thought this was a too "polemical" point to write it
this way, but if you prefer this way, I'll follow your point.


> This step will make you generate your private and your public keys.<br>
> At shell prompt, type "ssh-keygen". Ssh-keygen will ask you file or 
> directories names (default values will generally fit you perfectly: just 
> accept them) and a passphrase (a password your SSH client will ask you to 
> identify yourself).<brW This will generate in your home directory these files 
> : ~/.ssh/identity (your private key), ~/.ssh/identity.pub (your public key), 
> ~/.ssh/config (your ssh client personnal settings), ~/.ssh/known_hosts (your 
> ssh client authorised servers).<br>
> 
> >>> For this you may want to cut/paste the instructions that are in the
> >>> relevant Savannah page. 
> >>> Including actual examples that someone can cut/paste is quite important
> >>> in a HOWTO. It makes it a lot easier to quickly read and apply.

I understand your point but I don't really see the way to implement
it on this particular case. Perhaps Martin will have more ideas.

I updated the page on wanadoo server.

I suggest we also have what Martin already wrote, to merge, if he
agrees the two branchs of howto work.

Loic, would it be interesting to create a small savannah project
for all documentation writers on Savannah? It would probably allow
you to have a look on all current work, and would probably make
everyone work faster. 

Hope this will fit you.

Amitiés.

Jean-Philippe