On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:55:12PM -0500, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > 3) why a maintainer should ever need to register his GPG key twice (one > > > on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and another on [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - shouldn't > > > maintainers be automatically needed FTP upload access? > > > > Dunno, maybe you should ask the sysadmins when they get back to you. I > > believe they do a tighter identify check. > > probably. but i am very curious about this. even if they call the phone number > i gave them, this will not make them more sure about my identity.
Well, they didn't for me ;) > > > 4) will i ever receive a confirmation that my SSH key is enabled for > > > accessing GNU servers and that my GPG key is enabled for automated FTP > > > upload? > > > > Yes, the sysadmins should send you a mail once that is done. > > they didn't for the SSH key. i had to check randomly to see if my access had > been activated. i am afraid i will have to do the same for my GPG key. and > this will of course slow down significantly the upload procedure for wget > 1.10. Well, they did for me :) (but it was in 2003) > > I agree this is confusing, but the 2 systems are separate. I'd > > consider ftp.gnu.org for all kind of official, mirrored release, and > > Savannah's as a more convenient download area. > > yes, and savannah also provides a good development environment (especially > for > new projects). BTW, are you planning to offer subversion support in the near > future? we are planning to migrate to subversion very soon. This is planned, although I don't think we'll meet your deadline :/ -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savannah-help-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
