The past 24 hours have been amazing. The sysadmin team has been busy continuously. Eike Hein was on duty yesterday most of the day, and when he (finally) decided to go to bed, Ben Cooksley took over. I guess night shifts are not so bad when you are living on the other end of the world. I’ll take the next shift if Ben has had enough.

We are busy converting password based subversion accounts to ssh based ones. The benefit of doing that is that you automatically get access to the KDE Git repository. As KDE is moving to Git, we need to either convert the password based accounts or disable them.

In the past 24 hours we have sent out mails to 1210 subversion account holders which use a password. Of those roughly 150 have replied to the invitation. Roughly 100 replied with their ssh key, 1 with his gpg key and about 50 replied that they want to close their account.

That might seem like a high number of people closing their account, but seeing it into perspective of the total accounts we have, and considering nobody gives up his or her account usually, I think it is actually a very nice number.

The 100 we converted were all converted instantly, nobody had to wait, which is a great achievement. Ah, Ben just asked me to take over, so this blog needs to be ended now. The work is comparable with creating new accounts, so we still need to actually do something for each developer that wants to convert.

What I wanted to say is, that if you have not received an invitation to convert, please go to this page and re-request your invitation. If you still don’t receive it, check if your email address is correct in the accounts file. If not, adapt it there, and re-request the invitation in a day or so.

If you have any questions, jump into #kde-sysadmin irc channel or file a sysadmin bugreport here.

Oh, backlog building up…. Bye!