Hello,

On 12/06/2016 04:08 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
> 
> did you have chance to try appending the "-guest" suffix to your username,
> as I suggest below?
> 
> I'd like to prepare a new upload of python-mimeparse with release 1.6.0 and
> have it tracked in Alioth/git.debian.org.

Yes, registration worked now. I didn't find out how to create a project,
though. You said something about me having to be in a team?

My username is mathiasertl-guest.

greetings, Mati

> 
> Free
> 
> 
> On 30 November 2016 at 23:52, Free Ekanayaka <fr...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mathias,
>>
>> On 30 November 2016 at 20:48, Mathias Ertl <m...@restauth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 11/26/2016 06:37 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>>>> but email confirmation fails with an undescriptive error
>>>>> message.
>>>>
>>>> Hum, would you mind pasting the error message (even if it seems
>>>> undescriptive, I could forward it to Alioth admins)?
>>>>
>>>> Could you please also try to resend the confirmation email and retry?
>>> You
>>>> can do it from:
>>>>
>>>> https://alioth.debian.org/account/pending-resend.php
>>>
>>> So I just tried registration again - my first account was "mathiasertl",
>>> now I tried "mathiasertl2":
>>>
>>> 1. I do get a confirmation email.
>>>
>>
>> Good.
>>
>>
>>> 2. On the confirmation page
>>> (https://alioth.debian.org/account/verify.php?confirm_hash=...) I do not
>>> really get an error, BUT I see a <p class="error"></p> element with no
>>> content. This might just be rendering issue or something, but it might
>>> also indicate an incorrectly displayed error.
>>>
>>
>> I *think* it's just a bug in the HTML that gets generated, but not a
>> "real" problem.
>>
>>
>>> 3. When I submit the form, I get the headline "Beendigung mit Fehler" (a
>>> very bad translation of "an error occured") and the error message "Could
>>> Not Get User".
>>>
>>
>> I tried the whole process myself, and got the same result. However I just
>> realized that most probably the issue is actually a stupid one: when you
>> get to this step 3, in the "Login name:" field of the form you have to
>> append "-guest" to your user name. For example:
>>
>> Login name:
>> [mathiasertl-guest]
>>
>> Password:
>> [******]
>>
>> (or "mathiasertl2-guest" if you use the confirmation URL from your second
>> attempt).
>>
>> I'm afraid it's not obvious at all, but I hope it will solve the problem.
>> Please let me know if it is the case.
>>
>> See also this FAQ:
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#Why_do_I_have_a_.
>> 22-guest.22_suffix_on_my_account_.3F
>>
>> It doesn't directly explain this, but it's what made me think about it.
>>
>> Free
>>
> 


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