Access to the CVS repository of LON-CAPA is available by

• web
• CVS command line tools -- submit a help request to the MSU LON-CAPA group to request a CVS USERNAME.

  The initial CVS commands would be:

  export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME@source.lon-capa.org:/home/cvs cvs co loncapa

  You will be prompted to enter your password each time you issue a cvs command.
  A solution to this is to use

          ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa
          

  to generate public and private keys in ~/.ssh/
  Send the public key (id_dsa.pub) to helpdesk@lon-capa.org so it can be added to the appropriate authorized_keys file on source.lon-capa.org

  For more information on using CVS, please visit http://www.cvshome.org/ or read loncom/build/readme.html after downloading the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.

Additionally, the IRC channel #loncapa on freenode.net often contains a few lon-capa developers willing to help out.