Ubuntu Documentation - Getting Started

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Fri Aug 16 15:41:37 UTC 2013


You do need a GPG key to build docs for final upload :)


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:

> Hi again Everybody,
>
> I finally went through the web page twice,
> following the instructions and using a two fresh
> VM computers.
>
> And I made some edits (on both the new location and the old
> location) to the web page.
>
> John also made an edit to both page locations a few days ago.
>
> Assertion: You do not need GPG keys to be a documentation
> contributor.
>
> Proof: On the second VM, I never installed the gnupg package
> and never created or uploaded a GPG key and didn't have any
> issues. Only the SSH key is required.
>
> This is good news.
> Why? Because, myself, I find the GPG key stuff to be a big pain.
> The GPG stuff is why I almost gave up when I first tried to help
> with this stuff. And it was just about as painful today, but
> I did figure it out, and made edits to the web page (before
> I figured out that GPG keys are not even needed in the first
> place).
>
> ... Doug
>
>
>
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