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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think anyone can download the code, but committing code back is not
> possible without an SSH key pair AFAIK.
>
> It is pretty complicated, but if one is coding stuff, it should be
> pretty easy. :)
>

Agree in principle, it just sucks that this is the initial experience. In
last week's workshop in Rwanda, I had a very smart guy comment that "this
open source stuff is always so complex" comparing it to click-click
installers...


> I do think it should be much more simple for the DcoBook branch. It
> seems like total overkill, but since there was a decision to move to
> Launchpad, I think we have to live with this and provide assistance to
> anyone who wants/can commit code but cannot get everything setup.
>
>
Good point about the documentation. Not sure what the solution is though, as
we do need authentication. We could of course host it on a Subversion server
(e.g. Sourceforge, Google Code) which could lower the barrier a bit? Or
would it be too confusing?

Knut


>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > It is very unfortunate that it is so complicated to get hold of the
> latest
> > source code.
> > There are simply too many hoops for Windows users on this page - it
> drives
> > people away at an early stage:
> >  https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/CreatingAnSSHKeyPair
> > Is there no way to avoid having SSH keys for simple download of the code?
> > Knut
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Cheers,
Knut Staring