It’s odd that Firefox didn’t work for you. My standard workaround is to use Firefox, and that’s what I just did successfully for shenyinjie.
It’s quite mysterious to me that this problem would be browser-specific at all though. --Chris Nauroth On 8/18/16, 6:53 AM, "Steve Loughran" <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: I'm trying to add a new contributor, "shenyinjie", but I'm getting the couldn't connect to server message; tried on chrome and firefox, and tried to paste the username in rather than rely on any popup completion. no joy: has anyone else succeeded at this recently? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org