[Savannah-hackers] [ 101942 ] Newbie comments: content clarification

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Support Request #101942, was updated on Tue 03/11/03 at 20:58
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Summary: Newbie comments: content clarification

By: yeupou
Date: Tue 03/11/03 at 21:50
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Hi, 
 
Your comments are interesting, thanks. 
 
1) Can you give more details? 
2) I changed recently from "Developer" to "Member" access 
because many people that are "Developer" tried to use this 
access without being member of the project.  
So Developer is not better than Member. But you're right, 
someone may understand Member as Savannah member and not 
project member. 
But the first phrase under the title is pretty explicit « Only project 
members can access the CVS tree via this method, which gives 
write permission », isn't it? 
 
3) Ok, the message could be better, but the second part of the 
phrase is important  : « After submitting, verify that the number of 
keys in your file is what you expected ». 

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By: pete_proehl
Date: Tue 03/11/03 at 20:58
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Support invited me to explain what led to my 
recent confusion in using the Savannah site
for the first time. I hope these comments are helpful.

1)Anonymous CVS password

On http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=m68hc11 
If  "When prompted for password for anoncvs, simply
press the enter key " 
was changed to something like
"When prompted for a password press the enter key."
then sleep deprived newbies like me might not
mistakenly use "anoncvs" for the password when coming
from another repository where that password is used (I
saw "anoncvs", assumed it was the same, and ignored
everything after the comma). 

2) Distinction between Savannah user/member and developer: 

On the same page (item 1), the heading of  "Member CVS
Access..." could be clarified. As a newbie,
it is unclear if "member" means member of Savannah,
member of a specific developer group (in which case
"Developer access to CVS" might be clearer). In the
"Member CVS Access..." section of that page, the only
reference to the term "developer" is in the example cvs
command. 
cvs -z3
-d<developername>@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/m68hc11
co <modulename>

If this type of access is restricted to developers then
the same distinction between a developer and Savannah
user/member could be made on the following FAQ
http://savannah.gnu.org/faq/?group_id=11&question=How_do_I_start_using_the_CVS_repository.txt
In this FAQ, "user" is used rather than
"<developername>" in the cvs command example. 
cvs -z3 address@hidden:/cvsroot/project co
project


3) Key entry:

The http://savannah.gnu.org/account/editsshkeys.php
page states 
"Important: Make sure there are no line breaks except
between keys.".
That's fine, but when the key is pasted into the input
box it wraps and looks like it violates the no break
rule. A note to alert the user that line wrapping is
acceptable and that warns them not to remove the
embedded spaces that cause the wrapping, would be helpful.

Thanks.


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