Requesting an HG Account

Requesting an HG Account

As mentioned in Live Repositories, all Nevada G11N repositories can be checked out anonymously. You can also apply a Read/Write account if you are making regular contributions to one or more Nevada G11N projects.

1. Register on opensolaris.org, and fill in your public ssh key

you need to get an account of opensolaris.org before you can apply the access permission to the repositories. You also need to fill in your pubic ssh key (and ssh key type: DSA, RSA1 or RSA2) in your account setting page. If you don't have a public ssh key yet, you can generate one as below:

    $ ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024

2. Affiliated with Nevada G11N project

Click Nevada G11N, then click link "Affiliate with this project".

3. Sign OCA form if you're non-Oracle applicant

It's a must that all non-Oracle applicants (who are not employed by Oracle) should sign the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) before they can make contributions to any documents and source codes of the OpenSolaris.org projects.

• OCA form
• OCA FAQ

4. Subscribe to mailing lists

Subscribe to g11n-notify_@opensolaris.org from http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/g11n-notify, so that you can send out the pushback notifications. Subscribe to g11n-dev@opensolaris.org from http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/g11n-dev, so that you can join the discussion.

5. Send email to us

Send a request email to g11n-dev@opensolaris.org, with the description of yourself and the projects you'd like to contribute. For non-Oracle applicants, please also specify the issued ID (i.e., OSxxxx) in the email. You will get this ID once your file OCA.

6. Create /.hgrc
[ui] username = [your username]

After Acceptance

Once your request are accepted, you can check out the repositories by:

    $ hg clone ssh://username//@//hg.opensolaris.org/hg/nv-g11n/g11n

    $ hg clone ssh://username//@//hg.opensolaris.org/hg/nv-g11n/messages

    $ hg clone ssh://username//@_hg.opensolaris.org/hg/nv-g11n/inputmethod

• Note: please replace 'username' with your account name.