On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2011 2:38:06 pm Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I would have liked to looked at revision history in WebSVN online, but
>> > now KDE is in git and I can find no equivalent of websvn.  I looked at
>> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Git and
>> > http://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual and then
>> > https://projects.kde.org/ and http://quickgit.kde.org/ but I cannot find
>> > a revision history for kapplication, only chronological lists of
>> > revisions.
>>
>> For a list of changes to KApplication, please see
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/repository/revisions/master/c
>> hanges/kdeui/kernel/kapplication.cpp
>>
> Thanks, Ben.  I found it, but unfortunately there were no changes in the
> period of interest.  The hunt continues.

The cache file can be found at /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/icon-cache.kcache

>
>> > GitKdeOrgManual invites me to log in on https://identity.kde.org/ which I
>> > tried, hoping to find out more.  But my developer's ID (ianw) and
>> > password do not work there.  I seem to have been disenfranchised ... :-(
>>
>> As an existing KDE developer, you simply need to perform a password
>> reset to be able to login to KDE Identity.
>> In order to access SVN/Git, you'll also need to convert to an SSH
>> account however (simply upload a SSH key, then ask a sysadmin in
>> #kde-sysadmin on Freenode)
>>
>> > I tried to re-register but it asked for an email address as ID, but it
>> > would not accept mine and declared it invalid ([email protected]).
>>
>> Likely because your email is already in use, by the developer account
>> which was imported into KDE Identity.
>>
> Well I have "reset password" OK now, but there seem to be some dialog
> and documentation problems along the line:
>
>  - No "reset password" link on https://identity.kde.org/ and a search of
>   on those words returns nothing useful. Finally, in desperation, I tried
>   "Forgot your password?" (even though I had not) and it worked.
>  - The "Register" page told me that my email address was in the wrong
>   format (although it was not).  I think it should have said I was already
>   registered.
>  - When I log in on https://identity.kde.org/ it seems to have only my
>   own details, for editing purposes, and a list of other developers
>   (which used to be on a file called "accounts" IIRC).  If KDE Identity
>   has no other content and no access to goodies, what is its purpose?
>   And why are there links into it from other KDE pages?  I seem to have
>   been drawn into a wild goose chase ...

KDE Identity doesn't have much to do with Git itself, it is primarily
an infrastructure site, which manages a common login system which is
being used by an increasing number of KDE sites.

>
> Re SSH key, I already got one in the middle of last year when Admin
> emailed about it.  You haven't invalidated that, have you, Ben?

Nope, haven't affected your account, so if you have already converted
to SSH, you are fine. I guessed that you may have been a HTTPS user
based on your attempted usage of a password you already knew there.

>
> All the best, Ian W.
>
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Regards,
Ben
 
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