On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Roi Martin wrote:
> Actually, when I was reading SshAccess [1] in the Savannah documentation
> I found these paragraphs:
> 
>   SSH access is allowed for registered users who are a member of at
>   least one active Savannah group. If you are not a member of any group,
>   then you can use anonymous https access.
> 
>   [...]
> 
>   If you're not member of any Savannah group, no account will be created
>   on the system - you will have your web account, but not system
>   access. A system account will be created after you become a member of
>   at least one active group.
> 
> And I somehow thought that requesting access to the "emacs" group [2]
> would give me *read-only* access to their repositories.

No, such a request makes the user a pending member, and pending
memberships don't count.  Can you suggest an improvement for that page
that would have prevented your misinterpretation?

> What do you mean by "use the 'member' clone"?  Is it just cloning the
> repo via SSH?

I mean that the command line will be just like for the members
of the group, though it would be read-only until admins
of that group approve your membership, e.g.

  git clone jroimar...@git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs.git

> > The authenticated access must be more stable.  If you wish, we could
> > arrange it for you meanwhile.
> 
> If that means more work on your side or you doing something special, no
> worries, I can wait until you roll out the new infrastructure.  If it is
> something easy, then having a more stable authenticated access would be
> great.  But, again, I don't want to put more work on you.

No much work.  I've just added you to one of orphaned groups.
Please try.

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