> On Aug 10, 2014, at 21:43, Ed Beroset <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Kevin Cox <[email protected]> >> Sent: Aug 9, 2014 4:05 PM >> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How to support wireshark w/o having an OpenID >> >>> On 09/08/14 12:51, Toralf Förster wrote: >>> My question is rather, whether it is mandatory to register at one of >>> the big IT players or if an email address would be sufficient. >> You don't need to register at "one of the big IT players", I think that >> Wireshark gerrit is set up to accept any OpenID provider. However I >> believe you are asking if you can sign up with just an email and I'm >> pretty sure the answer is no because gerrit doesn't do its own >> authentication. >> >> Basically the story is—as currently set up—you need an OpenID but who >> your provider is doesn't matter, you can use a public service or set >> your own up but it has to be OpenID. >> >> Sorry if that doesn't suit you, maybe you could start a discussion about >> alternate authentication methods however gerrit doesn't support much.[0] >> >> [0] >> https://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.1/config-gerrit.html#auth > > I'm not sure it matters sufficiently that it could or should cause course > alteration, but as one who has contributed modestly to Wireshark before the > move to gerrit, but not since then, I'd have to say that for me, the > setup/registration/configuration/etc. has definitely impeded further > contributions. The new process is something that I haven't really gotten > around to trying to figure out. I'm not saying it's the wrong choice, but > it's just that much more effort to even *submit* a patch, that I suspect that > a lot of would-be contributors might find the threshold too high. Maybe > updating documentation could help. Right now, if you go to the main > "develop" page https://www.wireshark.org/develop.html and click on the link > under "code review site" you get to > https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/q/status:open,n,z which offers no clue at > all as to how one should actually register. I'm sure I could figure it out, > and I'm sure many have. It's just that I'd really just like to be able to > contribute patches without having to do quite so much exploration. Maybe I'm > just lazy, but it might be nice if the barrier to useful contribution were > lowered just a bit.
There is http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/SubmittingPatches which we should definitely do a better job of advertising. That should walk you through the major setup steps. Where would be a more useful/obvious place to include that information? Evan > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
