Re: SVG IG Reset

Woot!  I was able to check it out also.

Thanks for the tips,
Jeff

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:54 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej@anomaly.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:50:56 -0500
> Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Wade, Manuel-
>>
>> G. Wade Johnson wrote (on 1/29/10 6:25 PM):
>> >
>> > I had submitted a chapter review end of last year, before we started
>> > the CVS process. My attempts at getting CVS access have been less
>> > than successful. (In fact I, was never really sure that my ssh key
>> > was received.)
>>
>> Manuel Strehl wrote (on 1/30/10 4:40 PM):
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, when the topic "David's book" came up last November
>> > on the mailing list, I had the same experience as G. Wade
>> > concerning CVS access/SSH keys (although I had no review yet at
>> > that time).
>>
>> I requested accounts for both of you from the Systems Team when you
>> sent me your public keys.  I just sent a follow-up request to make
>> sure that nothing went wrong.
>>
>> Have you tested your CVS accounts to see if they are working?  You
>> should already have access to the CVS directory:
>>
>>   /Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/
>>
>> Let me know if you need more help setting up CVS locally.
>
> It took a bit more messing around, but I finally got all of the missing
> pieces together.
>
> 1. My ssh key appears to have been properly installed on the CVS server
> 2. The "CVS in W3C" document lists two different CVSROOT values.
>   The correct one appears to be CVSROOT={username}@cvs.w3.org:/w3ccvs
> 3. The CVS directory of interest combines information from the "CVS in
>   W3C" document with Doug's comment above.
>
>   cvs checkout WWW/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/
>
> This combination finally allowed me to check out the State of the Art
> document.
>
> G. Wade
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