Unfuddle Trick: Create a Client’s Account
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Unfuddle is the bomb. GitHub is pretty sweet too, if you know future developers will all be “elite” enough to hang with git.
It’s always a pain doing the back & forth dance between clients when trying to get them setup with their own Subversion repository.
Some developers just have their own source control, i.e. setup at “jimjohnson.com” (where the developer is Jim Johnson), and keep all client code on there (semi-permanently).
I would strongly urge clients to get their application’s source control setup such that if they need to switch developers, they do not have to pester Jim to migrate it over to Unfuddle, or wherever. Granted, it’s easy to zip things up — but then you lose all the commit history. Also god forbid Jim gets hit by a bus one day! That would be bad news on both sides of the aisle! 
The Simple Trick
Visit this page and simply create a new account for your client, using his or her email address for the administrator account. That way if the client ever decides to move on, they’ve already got the keys to the kingdom and can simply change the admin password.
The lowest paid plan is free at Unfuddle… but hopefully the app will be so wildly successful soon that affording an upgrade will be well worth the investment!
