<div dir="ltr">Why not call it a "tester's key"? It is principally useful for testing late-breaking versions.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM, C. Scott Ananian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM, <<a href="mailto:david@lang.hm">david@lang.hm</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>> Requesting dev keys should not be difficult! How can we fix that problem?<br>
><br>
> one headache (at least from the initial G1G1 machines) was the inability to<br>
> do a cut-n-paste of the long key between the terminal and the browser and<br>
> therefor the need to copy the long key manually between screens (or to and<br>
> from paper)<br>
<br>
</div>That is true. <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5709" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5709</a> and<br>
<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428</a> track these issues. I regret I<br>
wasn't able to get time to fix them for 8.2; they are on my 9.1<br>
roadmap, but help would be appreciated!<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> another one (very relevant to conference situations) is the one business day<br>
> delay in getting the keys issues. this isn't usually a problem, but when you<br>
> only have people togeather for a couple of days (especially over the<br>
> weekend) it may not be possible to get keys for people who don't already<br>
> have them.<br>
<br>
</div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_devkey_data_for_many_XOs_at_once" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_devkey_data_for_many_XOs_at_once</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> many people who would be good testers don't consider themselves 'developers'<br>
> so would not get them on their own.<br>
<br>
</div>Can you suggest a better name, or how we might improve our documentation?<br>
--scott<br>
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