Info on developer key request page on XO

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
>   > Folks - I'm investigating steps that can make it easier to get
>   > developer keys for XOs for users who desire them.  At the moment
>   > the developer key request page at file:///home/.devkey.html
>   > contains content that is retrieved (in an IFRAME) from the
>   > activation.laptop.org server (as well as pulling a stylesheet from
>   > it).  Is there a particular reason for this approach as opposed to
>   > making some or all of that content static and local to the XO?
>
> My recollection of the reasoning is that we had a short time (before the
> original G1G1 image deadline) to pull this together, and decided that
> it's much more flexible to fix bugs and handle translations and giving
> instructions on devkey installation on the server-side, rather than
> needing to preload them all ahead of time.  Scott will know more, since
> he did the work.

Yes.  For example, we can add information about postal-mail requests
to the page, without opening up the 767 build.
 --scott

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