Re: Welcome to gcc.gnu.org

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>]

(Some notes regarding our welcome message for new accounts.)

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 root@sources.redhat.com wrote:
> Your account is now active, the login name is reichelt@gcc.gnu.org.
> [...]
> If your involvement with the project ends at some point, the mail address
> 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...

> You should now have write access to the gcc repository with
> SSH+cvs.  Here are lots of details about how to do things.

s/gcc/GCC/  s/cvs/CVS/

> Regarding SSH:  By default, gcc.gnu.org uses ssh protcol 1.  If you
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
> have keys in your .ssh directory which will also work with protocol 2,
> you will need to add the following lines to your a .ssh/config
> directory:
>
>     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.)

Gerald