[Savannah-hackers] Re: a dummy project to help create accounts

[Mark H. Weaver]

Paul Visscher <address@hidden> writes:

> sysadmin.texi says:
> 
>     The instructions ask them to create an account on savannah, and to
>     email us after that is done.  However, in order to proceed, the
>     user's login account on subversions must have been created.  This
>     will not happen until:
>     
>       1. The savannah user has been added to at least one project.  You can
>          check this by visiting <https://savannah.gnu.org/users/username>.
> 
>       2. An hourly cron job has run, which creates new login accounts when
>          needed.
> 
>     If the project they are to be added to is a newly registered
>     project, you'll have to wait until the folks at cvs-hackers approve
>     the project and add them to it.
> 
> Should we have a dummy project that we add these accounts to? If I
> understand correctly, we are trying to move initial account creation to
> savannah, even if the user does not need savannah access.

I don't think so.  If they don't properly belong in any existing
projects, they really don't need a subversions account anyway.  In
these cases, you'll just need their SSH keys, which are available in
/subversions/sourceforge/dumps/accounts.txt.

        Mark