Hi Mathias, did you have chance to try appending the "-guest" suffix to your username, as I suggest below?
I'd like to prepare a new upload of python-mimeparse with release 1.6.0 and have it tracked in Alioth/git.debian.org. Free On 30 November 2016 at 23:52, Free Ekanayaka <fr...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > On 30 November 2016 at 20:48, Mathias Ertl <m...@restauth.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 11/26/2016 06:37 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >> >> but email confirmation fails with an undescriptive error >> >> message. >> > >> > Hum, would you mind pasting the error message (even if it seems >> > undescriptive, I could forward it to Alioth admins)? >> > >> > Could you please also try to resend the confirmation email and retry? >> You >> > can do it from: >> > >> > https://alioth.debian.org/account/pending-resend.php >> >> So I just tried registration again - my first account was "mathiasertl", >> now I tried "mathiasertl2": >> >> 1. I do get a confirmation email. >> > > Good. > > >> 2. On the confirmation page >> (https://alioth.debian.org/account/verify.php?confirm_hash=...) I do not >> really get an error, BUT I see a <p class="error"></p> element with no >> content. This might just be rendering issue or something, but it might >> also indicate an incorrectly displayed error. >> > > I *think* it's just a bug in the HTML that gets generated, but not a > "real" problem. > > >> 3. When I submit the form, I get the headline "Beendigung mit Fehler" (a >> very bad translation of "an error occured") and the error message "Could >> Not Get User". >> > > I tried the whole process myself, and got the same result. However I just > realized that most probably the issue is actually a stupid one: when you > get to this step 3, in the "Login name:" field of the form you have to > append "-guest" to your user name. For example: > > Login name: > [mathiasertl-guest] > > Password: > [******] > > (or "mathiasertl2-guest" if you use the confirmation URL from your second > attempt). > > I'm afraid it's not obvious at all, but I hope it will solve the problem. > Please let me know if it is the case. > > See also this FAQ: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#Why_do_I_have_a_. > 22-guest.22_suffix_on_my_account_.3F > > It doesn't directly explain this, but it's what made me think about it. > > Free >
