[Savannah-help-public] Re: [sr #104299] upload of wget 1.10 tarball

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:55:12PM -0500, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> > > 3) why a maintainer should ever need to register his GPG key twice (one
> > > on address@hidden and another on address@hidden) - shouldn't
> > > maintainers be automatically needed FTP upload access?
> >
> > Dunno, maybe you should ask the sysadmins when they get back to you. I
> > believe they do a tighter identify check.
> 
> probably. but i am very curious about this. even if they call the phone number
> i gave them, this will not make them more sure about my identity.

Well, they didn't for me ;)

> > > 4) will i ever receive a confirmation that my SSH key is enabled for
> > > accessing GNU servers and that my GPG key is enabled for automated FTP
> > > upload?
> >
> > Yes, the sysadmins should send you a mail once that is done.
> 
> they didn't for the SSH key. i had to check randomly to see if my access had 
> been activated. i am afraid i will have to do the same for my GPG key. and 
> this will of course slow down significantly the upload procedure for wget 
> 1.10.

Well, they did for me :) (but it was in 2003)

> > I agree this is confusing, but the 2 systems are separate. I'd
> > consider ftp.gnu.org for all kind of official, mirrored release, and
> > Savannah's as a more convenient download area.
> 
> yes, and savannah also provides a good development environment (especially 
> for 
> new projects). BTW, are you planning to offer subversion support in the near 
> future? we are planning to migrate to subversion very soon.

This is planned, although I don't think we'll meet your deadline :/

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Sylvain