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[Savannah-hackers] Re: gfe integrated to http://savannah.gnu.org/project
From: |
Anuradha Ratnaweera |
Subject: |
[Savannah-hackers] Re: gfe integrated to http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/ |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:25:24 +0600 (LKT) |
Thanks for adding GFE to savannah project. I will do the needful to get
things synchronized.
Regards,
Anuradha
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 address@hidden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> gfe was integrated in the SourceForge.net clone dedicated to GNU
> projects that can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/. The URL of
> the gfe project on Savannah is http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/
> It provides you with the following facilities:
>
> . Web interface to handle contributors CVS write access. You don't
> need to ask someone, it is automated. Only the gfe project
> administrators on Savannah can give CVS write access to new
> contributor or deny access to an existing one. This is basically a
> one click operation. If you want to become a project
> administrator ask an existing administrator to grant you the right
> or, if there are no project administrator, ask address@hidden
> to become one.
>
> . Editing http://www.gnu.org/software/gfe/ pages using CVS
> instead of login onto gnudist.gnu.org. As soon as you commit
> information in this CVS tree, it will show on
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gfe/.
>
> . The gfe CVS tree now has a separate CVS history instead of an
> history merged with all other projects hosted on
> subversions.gnu.org.
>
> For more information on how to access the CVS trees, click on the
> CVS menu at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gfe/.
>
> No action is required from you, the Savannah setup does not require
> that you change your habbits. However, it would be nice of you to do
> the following:
>
> - login at least once on https://savannah.gnu.org/account/login.php
> - read the CVS instructions for the gfe project
> - checkout the gfe CVS tree according to these instructions
>
> When all contributors will be using the new CVS tree, we will be
> able to remove the backward compatibility installation for gfe.
>
> When you login Savannah, the transaction is secure (SSL). In case
> you wonder what all this is about you can check the cvs-hackers and
> webmasters mailing lists archive, they contain a lot of discussions
> regarding this planned integration.
>
> If you have a Kerberos account on gnu.org, use the same login and
> password on Savannah and change the password immediately afterwards:
> it will not change your Kerberos password, just the Savannah
> password.
>
> If you only have a pserver account, use the same login and
> password on Savannah.
>
> If you have both (Kerberos and pserver), use the Kerberos account
> login and password. Note that after login for the first time your
> pserver password will be set to the same password you use to login on
> Savannah. Please change the Savannah password immediately after your
> first login: it will not change your Kerberos password, just the
> Savannah password.
>
> If you have none and access CVS using SSH public keys, ask to
> address@hidden to give you a password. This last case requires
> human interaction to prevent someone from stealing your account name.
>
> Please report problems or questions to
> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=addsupport&group_id=11 or by
> email to address@hidden if you don't have (or don't want to
> use) a web browser.
>
> Cheers,
>
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