On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 8:39:50 PM UTC-7 Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > But people nowadays who start with GitHub never have to go through archaic >> setup steps such as those that we document at >> https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/trac.html#trac-authentication-through-ssh, >> >> which --- even when it is working --- is major friction for the project. >> > > I think it has been just far too long since you uploaded your ssh key to > GH. The server cannot magically know your ssh public key. >
You are missing that the new contributors will already have set up their GitHub for virtual everything else that they work on. There is no additional such cost for starting to work on a new project that's also hosted on GitHub. This is a just tiny bit of the big network effects that will come. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d5893ab1-7c33-430c-8619-b3708e92bdc3n%40googlegroups.com.