[Savannah-hackers] Re: savannah sucks

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

"Mark H. Weaver" <address@hidden> writes:

> Please try again, but pass the "-v" to scp, and email us the
> transcript.  Also, let us know exactly what time you tried this, so we
> can find the relevant log entries.

Here's a script of a session with datestamp.

typescript
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> Btw, regarding your statement "savannah sucks" -- I understand that
> you are frustrated, but I think that is incredibly disrespectful to
> the enormous amount of volunteer time that has gone into savannah.
> For most people, most of the time, it works very well.

My experience was that savannah once didn't suck.  Er, rather,
subversions didn't suck.  The current arrangement is even workable,
but my principle complaint is about current administration, and not
anything else.  My very first message said "my password doesn't work,
please change it and send me the change encrypted".  If that had been
done--if that were done now--it would *end* the problem!

Is it really too much to request that I know my password on my own
account?

The surest proof that something is greatly amiss is that everybody was
content to ignore it completely until now.  Suddenly you, jbailey, and
bkuhn have decided to pay attention!  

Before I was only dealing with Mathieu, who wouldn't believe me when I
gave him an exact error message from the web page, and told me I
didn't and couldn't have a shell account!

I'll revise my statement: savannah sucks for me.  It usually works
fine, as long as people stay to the well-worn paths.

Can someone please just set my password?  

Who responds to cvs-hackers?

Why can't I read the logs?

Why can't I just fix the problem myself?  I used to be root.

Thomas