Slowely we are approaching the somewhat more interesting bits of the launch of the git infrastructure. Up-to-now the most visible bit for you has been the conversion to ssh based accounts. If you had one already, nothing has changed up to now. But that’s going to change soon. The conversion is almost complete, we have [...]

I’ve been preparing a series of interviews with KDE Sysadmins and the people directly involved. Today is the day that we launch the first interview. While I was interviewing, I was wondering where and how to publish them. In the past we used the behindkde.org domain, but that system and domain wasn’t really used anymore. [...]

This evening I’ve been playing a bit with Flattr. Flattr gives you the opportunity to do micro-donations to blogs, articles or projects you like. When you do that, in return, you can also receive Flattrs. Say you want to donate 5 euro each month to projects you care about. Paypal could be used if they [...]

We are still waiting for 67 people to convert their account from password to ssh. As we can not shut down passwd based svn access until they are all done, we will probably not make our next deadline. Today for example we made no progress at all. Those 67 are the contributors that have used [...]

… but only if you are not yet using an ssh based svn account! According to the schedule, we will stop providing access to svn if you use a password based account on August 25th. If you have not converted yet. Do it now. Though everyone affected should have received a personal invitation already. Don’t [...]