My last blog triggered a handful of people who requested the merge from a password based svn account to a ssh based one. This was very nice, because we could iron out the last glitches in the scripts processing the requests.

We are now approaching the password based accounts directly. Everyone receives an invitation to convert. We send them out in managable batches, and we expect the last batch to go out later this weekend. We still have roughly 1200 accounts which need conversion.

Approaching everyone individually also means for some account holders a flash back to the times they were active for KDE. They could have been inactive for years already, as we never ‘clean’ svn accounts automatically based on inactivity.

If you are inactive you can also indicate that on the form, your account will be disabled and we will no longer spam you in the future to convert your account. So, if you want to pro-actively help us, feel free to go to this page and fill in your svn account name. You will receive instructions in your mailbox within seconds.