It's semantics, John. Recommending one mechanism but not the other means that the other mechanism is less recommended or, in other words, discouraged. This might be a mild discouragement, but it is so. The impact of this mild discouragement would be that our potential devs will likely be using https.
Anyway, if you know what you're doing, use whatever is easiest and best for you. On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 5:23 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 10:11 AM Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > That still uses SSH, which then uses your pre-configured keys. Github > docs > > discourage this use for some reason. > > > > Err no, github docs "recommend" using HTTPS, they don't discourage the use > of SSH. > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11041729/why-does- > github-recommend-https-over-ssh > provides > some info about why HTTPS is the current recommendation. > > > > > > --Tom > > > > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:54 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Any reason you wouldn't just use the github direct URLs? > > > > > > [email protected]:apache/incubator-ariatosca.git > > > [email protected]:apache/incubator-ariatosca-website.git > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:45 AM Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > The gitbox transition appears to have completed - thanks for setting > > this > > > > up Suneel. > > > > > > > > Committers please follow the instructions Suneel provided on Slack > > > earlier > > > > to synch your apache account with github so permissions work/etc... > > > > > > > > --Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > From slack: > > > > > > > > > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-ariatosca.git;a=summary > > > > > > > > > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-ariatosca-website.git;a= > > > summary > > > > > > > > Moved to both repos Gitbox. You'll need to have your committers link > > > their > > > > Github IDs on id.apache.org and enable two factor authentication > here: > > > > https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/ This process can take up to 2 > hours > > > for > > > > Gitbox to see. > > > > > > > > > >
