On 2025-05-26 19:09, Mark Millard wrote:
Alastair Hogge <agh_at_riseup.net> wrote on Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 22:58:38 UTC :. . . GitHub is another Walled Garden. You need an account to read code on it's platform,I'm right now using an old iPad with FireFox looking at the recent upstream error about fopen("tmp/pkg_add_cache","w") still being in use in recent pkg-devel update. I did not log into my github account to do this. (Line 1177 of pkg_add.c .) The "Sign in" button still says that. For reference, I navigated to what ended up being: github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/libpkg/pkg_add.c This is in the USA, in case that matters. May be you mean something more specific, but, as far as I can tell, your claim above is just false here.and they are terrible at providing access to new subscribers.I've never had troubles that would lead me to such a statement --or much of any note. (I do have an account --and have had it for a long time, so, likely not matching your specification of "new subscribers" at this point. I'm not going to create another account to check a better matching context.)I am on my second account, and none of my up upstream Issues are appearing. . . . . . .I've never had troubles with my issue submittals on github, including the one today about the bug referenced above. (Not that I submit such very often.) The submittal shows up just fine (#2450).
FWIW I *have* had trouble(s) in this area and as a result lost my account. This was 2 years ago and the problem (from GitHubs standpoint) not one that they were able to understand or resolve. Since that time someone else was able to take my account name. :( I have since been able to acquire another/name account w/o issue(s) Only saying any of this to indicate it *can* happen. :/ --Chris
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