Re: Welcome to gcc.gnu.org

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:28:06PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:42:22PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
>> > will become invalid and I will laugh evilly as people try in vain to
>> > reach you.
>> 
>> Perhaps we ought to remove the part about laughin evilly?  Not all (new)
>> contributors might grok this kind of humor...
>
>
>I know it's very English-centric, but I think it's imperative we
>keep this.  There's so little humor on the site as it is.  Anyone
>who can push a patch past the oft-obstinate gcc and gdb patch
>approval processes MUST have a sense of humor to make it this far. :-)

I agree.  I hate to drop the humor on the off chance that someone might
be confused.  I haven't heard a single complaint about it, fwiw.

>> >     Host gcc.gnu.org
>> > 	Protocol 1
>> 
>> There's a typo here, but in general: Do we still have the Protocol 1
>> requirement?  (I have been using Protocol 2 for several months with
>> gcc.gnu.org, not the least because it's more secure.)
>
>
>IIRC it's just a matter of someone upgrading the web form scripts to 
>accept the id_dsa.pub style keys.  We switched from the last gratis
>protocol-1-only ssh to OpenSSH long ago.  Chris has posted on this
>topic in the past, but I think that's the gist of it.

This was one of the things I planned on changing after the new system
was set up.  I won't cry if someone beats me to it, though.

cgf