[squeak-dev] Login for Inbox submissions

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Apr 1 09:17:42 UTC 2010


On 01.04.2010, at 10:18, Frank Shearar wrote:
> 
> Can we make it so that the tools log in for us? Well, yes, I suppose it can by one updating one's repository string?

Yes, like this:

MCHttpRepository
	location: 'http://source.squeak.org/inbox'
	user: 'myinitials'
	password: 'mypassword'

Once you do that it will remember the password and log you in automatically.

- Bert -

> 
> I'm happy to have a required login, and I'd like to avoid having to manually log in anywhere too.
> 
> frank
> 
> Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> I'd rather we all had accounts too I think. Sometimes I'm not clear on what came from who by initials alone. It's nice to see what different people are working on.
>> +1
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de <mailto:bert at freudenbergs.de>> wrote:
>>    On 31.03.2010, at 23:45, Ken Causey wrote:
>>     >
>>     > 3. Another I've thought of which is purely optional but I think we
>>     > should consider strongly suggesting is that you create an account at
>>     > source.squeak.org <http://source.squeak.org> and login before
>>    committing.  Certainly the repository
>>     > is world-writable but submitting it with your account helps to ensure
>>     > proper attribution and also gives us a point to ensure that
>>    submitters
>>     > have agreed to the MIT licensing.
>>     >
>>     > Truthfully I would advocate requiring signing in, but this would
>>    require
>>     > changes to SqueakSource to enforce I believe and may be considered an
>>     > unnecessary hurdle.
>>     >
>>     > That's all I can think of at the moment anyway,
>>     >
>>     > Ken
>>    I've been thinking about your third point too. The change necessary
>>    to the source server would not be too hard I think. But identifying
>>    uploaders would be helpful IMHO. It's also good for bragging, since
>>    only if you are logged in are commits counted for you :)
>>    Does anyone think it would be too much of a burden to create an account?
>>    - Bert -
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