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What to do with private key?

I managed to create a public/private pair of SSH keys using my existing key for OpenPGP, using Kleopatra and openpgp2ssh (Linux). At labsconsole I can publish my public key. But I do not know what to do with my private key. Insert into the browser? Sorry, I am new to SSH. User:Rudolf.grossmann 09:03, 4 April 2012‎ (UTC)

Your ssh client uses it, not your browser. User:Ryan Lane 20:33, 5 April 2012‎ (UTC)

Thanks for your advice, laner! I published my public key at labsconsole and Gerrit, and copied my private key to ~/.ssh. (I do not know what to do in Windows - Well, I will use Linux.)

So what comes next? I just want to move my extensions to GIT (I was told to do so.) Probably create a project and/or group at Gerrit? User:Rudolf.grossmann 15:18, 9 April 2012‎ (UTC)

You should ask people in #mediawiki or #wikimedia-dev to help you out with this. User:Ryan Lane 18:24, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

For moving an extension to Git, list it at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion/Extensions_queue

About Windows support, you probably want to use PuTTY plink (that needs converting the private key to PuTTY format) or cygwin port of openssh. User:Platonides 17:03, 10 April 2012‎ (UTC)

I moved my two extensions to the extensions queue and did everything like described here: https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Access#Initial_log_in

I got access to gerrit, and I created SSH keys (signed my keys with my gnupg key) and uploaded my public SSH key to labsconsole and gerrit.

Well, next will be to ask somebody at #mediawiki to create projects for my extensions within gerrit, like laner told me to do.

Thnx for your Win advice. Maybe it is easier to use Linux within a VirtualBox? User:Rudolf.grossmann 21:00, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

It's up to you. My recommendation is to commit from the system you will be ordinarily using.

If our developers need to launch a Virtual Machine just for commiting, we're doing something wrong. User:Platonides 20:35, 15 April 2012 (UTC)