Archive for October, 2010

projects.kde.org improving each day

http://projects.kde.org is improving day by day. My fellow sysadmins are slowly working through the loose ends. And in between everything they are working through all the requests from projects to move to git.kde.org. For example, with the amount of projects increasing, you can also see the fun bits, like the news page http://projects.kde.org/news, which is [...]

Huey, Dewey and Louie now available for every KDE developer to write the rules for the svn2git transition.

After we had setup the infrastructure for git, I wanted to try to migrate RSIBreak to git. Not because I actually want to use git (ever), but because I want to be familiar with the process of writing rules. I was ready to spend an evening writing rules. I went to the Techbase article at [...]

Help KDE, we need servers!

As known, the Git transition is happening. More and more projects are moving to git.kde.org. All the infrastructure is in place and working fine. But we have a small feature request still open. To convert a project from SVN to Git, you have to write conversion rules. To write these rules and test the conversion [...]

Introduction to projects.kde.org

projects.kde.org is now live for a bit. I thought it might be a good idea to show a bit of the site. The site should form the central point of KDE development. Every git repository the sysadmin team creates gets a project page automatically. It’s completely connected to identity.kde.org, everyone with an account on identity [...]

First few days of git.kde.org

They were quite hectic. We did test all the individual elements of our new infrastructure. And the technical side of all individual parts worked without hitch. What we did not really practiced was the organizational stuff we needed to do to make the moves. Simple things like who does what, when and in what way. [...]