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 almost a dozen accounts left that should convert, from which some are traveling, some are a bit stubborn, and some stopped using the account earlier this year. But there is still a week to go in which they can convert, they can no longer commit to svn now, so they should notice something is wrong pretty quickly.

Next week we are going to import all developers to our new gosa based system ( we will call it identity.kde.org probably ). This system will be used for managing your ssh-keys you are using for svn and git. You can add additional ones, remove compromised ones and do whatever you like to them. You can get access to the system by using the password recovery function of the system. This means your e-mailaddress should be up-to-date. Please make sure that the correct one is currently listed in the accounts file. View it here.

In preparation to the conversion, this file will be made read-only next week. After the conversion the file will be automatically generated based on the gosa database. Consequence is that if your e-mail address is incorrect, you can not change it in the accounts file, and the password recovery function of gosa will not work, hence you will need to file a bugreport and wait for a sysadmin to solve it and verify your identity. You better prevent that and make sure your e-mail address is listed correctly.

Another item I’ld like to make you aware of is that due to this conversion, it will be a bit harder for us for a while to process new developer applications. That means that creating new svn and git accounts will be a bit more work for us. Although we will process them normally, we would like to ask to either postpone applications or do them this week. If you feel someone needs a svn account, ask them to do it in the next few days please!

One last bit from the sysadmin team: we fixed the account creation on kdedevelopers.org. We’ve updated the drupal cms to the latest version and it should be fine now. I’ve processed the back log, but if you have applied for an account and you’ve not yet received the activation confirmation, please let us know on the email address you got in the registration confirmation.