OSDL's members area

Services overview

Some more services are available to the members:

• all services kindly provided to project members by Sourceforge [OSDL at Sourceforge], notably SVN [read our SVN nano-guide for project members].
• an account on our own gateway (osdl.esperide.com), usable via ssh only. Allows for FTP & web access to project resources

Services available at Sourceforge for OSDL project members

Shell access

When connecting to the shell services at Sourceforge, it may be a little boring to type each time your user password. Moreover, it prevents from writing scripts that automatically connect to these computers, for example to update the website or the documentation generated for the API, or to retrieve automatically sources from SVN.

To avoid having to enter a password, one might generate on one's computer a key pair (for example thanks to ssh-keygen) and transfer the public key to the shell server (with SSH). Simply, one just has to append one's public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (for example: cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ) and, if the permissions on one's files and directories are well set, the system should not ask his password anymore.

SVN

A SVN check-out of OSDL repository at Sourceforge can be performed thanks to:

svn co https://osdl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/osdl/trunk

Some common procedures (such as how to release a new OSDL version) are detailed here.

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