Why not call it a "tester's key"? It is principally useful for testing late-breaking versions.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > >> Requesting dev keys should not be difficult! How can we fix that > problem? > > > > one headache (at least from the initial G1G1 machines) was the inability > to > > do a cut-n-paste of the long key between the terminal and the browser and > > therefor the need to copy the long key manually between screens (or to > and > > from paper) > > That is true. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5709 and > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428 track these issues. I regret I > wasn't able to get time to fix them for 8.2; they are on my 9.1 > roadmap, but help would be appreciated! > > > another one (very relevant to conference situations) is the one business > day > > delay in getting the keys issues. this isn't usually a problem, but when > you > > only have people togeather for a couple of days (especially over the > > weekend) it may not be possible to get keys for people who don't already > > have them. > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_devkey_data_for_many_XOs_at_once > > > many people who would be good testers don't consider themselves > 'developers' > > so would not get them on their own. > > Can you suggest a better name, or how we might improve our documentation? > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- "The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
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