New release8.2 build 764

[Carol Lerche]

Why not call it a "tester's key"?  It is principally useful for testing
late-breaking versions.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> >> Requesting dev keys should not be difficult!  How can we fix that
> problem?
> >
> > one headache (at least from the initial G1G1 machines) was the inability
> to
> > do a cut-n-paste of the long key between the terminal and the browser and
> > therefor the need to copy the long key manually between screens (or to
> and
> > from paper)
>
> That is true.  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5709 and
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428 track these issues.  I regret I
> wasn't able to get time to fix them for 8.2; they are on my 9.1
> roadmap, but help would be appreciated!
>
> > another one (very relevant to conference situations) is the one business
> day
> > delay in getting the keys issues. this isn't usually a problem, but when
> you
> > only have people togeather for a couple of days (especially over the
> > weekend) it may not be possible to get keys for people who don't already
> > have them.
>
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_devkey_data_for_many_XOs_at_once
>
> > many people who would be good testers don't consider themselves
> 'developers'
> > so would not get them on their own.
>
> Can you suggest a better name, or how we might improve our documentation?
>  --scott
>
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