Recently I’ve seen all kinds of communication with the sysadmin team that simply does not work. Here are some examples:

Using random irc channels like #kde-devel for asking if systems are down. If you want to know that, use #kde-sysadmin.
Assuming sysadmin knows of a problem. Sometime I only find out that a server is down after [...]

Not that there are many questions about the conversion of password based svn accounts to ssh-based ones, but the FAQ-format is nice to address a bunch of random questions.
After converting my account, it asks for a password when committing, and I don’t know what to give in. Help?
The point here is that the svn switch [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Traditionally we have two different account types within KDE. Some people use https://$username@svn.kde.org and some people use svn+ssh://$username@svn.kde.org. While we are moving to git we can not use the https version anymore, write access to the git repository will be based on ssh keys.
To streamline your move to git, you will have to convert [...]