I suppose this is a kind of support matter....

I had some difficulties yesterday, trying to login to drupal.org.

Concurrently I was having difficulties with my computer, absolutely nothing to do with drupal.org, but exacerbating the first and adding greatly to my frustrations - I had three browsers open, each gobblihg over 1 Gbyte of memory and the system (Debian stable, HAH!) is often sleepy after waking from its hibernation, giving me response times of tens of minutes.

Drupal.org and I had different ideas about what my password is, so I followed the "forgotten password" routine.

I got the link, copied it to one of the sluggardly browsers (probably iceape aka seamonkey) and got the "this site is down for maintenance" message.

Later, I reloaded the page and tried to set a new password. After several iterations I still got a validation error from drupal.org. I did get a _warning_ (from the javascript) about a lack of diversity of symbols in the password, but on the basis that length is more important than diversity (and I have sufficient diversity), I don't believe that should be a problem.

There are no clear guidelines about what constitutes a secure password, but _I_ reckon 16 characters comprising a mix of numeric and alphabetic characters should do the trick. This, after all, isn't a bank! And, it has more diversity of alphanumeric characters than one of my former bank password has - five lower-case letters and three digits. I have also used a similar password for a major stockbroker.

I thought to use the contact form to report a problem, but there isn't one. Following the "Support" link, I found one to report "issues" to the web master. Following that, I get "Access denied

You are not authorized to access this page."

The summary: while (true) { I can't login because I apparently forgot my password. I can't reset my password because I only get validation errors when I try I can't report a problem through official channels because I cannot login. }

Whether the problem wrt my password is resolved or not, there still remains the matter that an anonymous visitor cannot report a problem such as a broken link. First, they must register. I often report broken links, and have already reported on this morning, but there is no likelihood I would go through Drupal's registration process just to do so.

I don't even do capchas, and I'm fairly reluctant to use forms either, see the contact link at http://js.id.au/register.php for my preferred way.