At Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:44:49 GMT, Karl Berry wrote: > I do not want to duplicate the information at README.accounts.html in > maintain.texi; that will just guarantee staleness when the procedure > changes one day. I (long ago) edited that web page to be as specific as > possible and no one ever told me about confusion. So whatever should be > improved there, let me know.
I've been referring maintainers to that page so they can get an account on fencepost and several have come back to me asking for a simpler explanation of what they need to do (which is basically "email your savannah id to [email protected]") I think it could be optimised for the common case of maintainers who already have an account on savannah and want to get access to fencepost. Most people working on a project will already have an account on savannah and a working ssh key there, since they need that to contribute code. Bascially something like the paragraph I wrote, displayed at the top of the page would do. In particular, the email address [email protected] should be explicitly mentioned (it is only in the mailto link target, so people have a hard time finding it). For the rest of the page, I think it could be reduced. Savannah gives instructions in the account page on how to generate the ssh key so it doesn't need to be on a separate page any more. Also the "New User via SSL" link is now simply "New User". The parts about "currently supported access methods", "CVS" and "If you're using OpenSSH" seem superfluous these days since ssh is the only option.
