An important change has just been made to the git infrastructure. We now have brand new, shiny, get-it-while-it-is-hot, bling-bling hooks. You might think, wtf are hooks? Let me explain about them. On each push to the git repository each commit will be checked for sanity. For example we check that the name and e-mail of [...]

Yeah. Yesterday I was so annoyed by my computer that I burned a cd with Fedora and installed it. I also had a 1,5TB disk waiting to be inserted, combining that made the switch pretty easy. For the last couple years, I ran KDE from trunk from svn. That meant that I only had a [...]

A long wanted feature we would like to have is to be able to close review requests made on reviewboard with the commit. For example by using a keyword like “REVIEW: 3344″, just like we do with bug reports. Whenever such a keyword is in a commit message, the number should be extracted and the [...]

Just did a small calculation about the amount of git repositories we have. We are now hosting 158 git repositories, from which 33 are clones and 48 are personal scratch repo’s. Which means 77 KDE apps, libraries and websites have now converted to git. Each repo still need work from sysadmin to setup, reviewboard, scripty, [...]

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 [...]