Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-08-16 17:59, Doug Henderson via Cygwin-apps wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 07:45, ASSI wrote: Thomas Wolff writes: As I cannot update mintty anymore right now from the git command line, Yes, I use SSH for all repos now. Do. Not. Use. GitHub. The raison raison d'être for GitHub is

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Doug Henderson via Cygwin-apps
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 07:45, ASSI wrote: > > Thomas Wolff writes: > > As I cannot update mintty anymore right now from the git command line, Yes, I use SSH for all repos now. > Do. Not. Use. GitHub. > > The raison raison d'être for GitHub is and always has been to subvert > the fully

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Jonathan Yong via Cygwin-apps
On 8/16/21 5:51 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 16.08.2021 um 16:46 schrieb Lee: On 8/16/21, Thomas Wolff wrote: github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords anymore. So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a "token"), which I did a while ago.

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin-apps
On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 19:51 +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 16.08.2021 um 16:46 schrieb Lee: > > On 8/16/21, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords > > > anymore. > > > So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 16.08.2021 um 16:46 schrieb Lee: On 8/16/21, Thomas Wolff wrote: github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords anymore. So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a "token"), which I did a while ago. But they refuse to support users with

Re: [ITA] scowl Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists

2021-08-16 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-08-12 08:34, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 15.08.2021 20:30, Brian Inglis wrote: I'd like to adopt the orphaned scowl Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists package and get it updated as it is a few years out of date. This package also provides and updates hunspell-en. all yours

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Lee via Cygwin-apps
On 8/16/21, Thomas Wolff wrote: > github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords > anymore. > So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a > "token"), which I did a while ago. > But they refuse to support users with the transition, there is no >

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps
On Aug 16 14:13, Thomas Wolff wrote: > github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords > anymore. > So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a > "token"), which I did a while ago. > But they refuse to support users with the transition, there is no

Re: github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread ASSI
Thomas Wolff writes: > As I cannot update mintty anymore right now from the git command line, > is any maintainer here impacted by the same issue and can help out > with some advice how to get rid of this nuisance? Do. Not. Use. GitHub. The raison raison d'être for GitHub is and always has been

github password policy

2021-08-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords anymore. So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a "token"), which I did a while ago. But they refuse to support users with the transition, there is no "plug-and-play" howto available, except for

Re: [ITA] scowl Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists

2021-08-16 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 15.08.2021 20:30, Brian Inglis wrote: I'd like to adopt the orphaned scowl Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists package and get it updated as it is a few years out of date. This package also provides and updates hunspell-en. all yours ATTN: Marco Atzeri - this update will make 2020.12.07

Re: [ITA] mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-libmpc

2021-08-16 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 15.08.2021 21:26, Achim Gratz wrote: These packages are orphaned by Yaakov and I apparently missed these earlier when taking over maintainance of the MinGW64 stuff that I maintain the Cygwin side of. Please assign to me, I plan to update them for gcc-11. Regards, Achim. all yours