Downtime for SVN - Action Required

Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 00:17:06 BST 2020


Translations are still in SVN, they have not moved to Git. We only
moved the SVN repository to a different server, and integrated SVN ssh
key management with the GitLab website.

-- 
Nicolás

El lun., 20 de abr. de 2020 a la(s) 19:56, Agron Selimaj
(as9902613 at gmail.com) escribió:
>
> Guys I just need a little clarification for submitting translated file to the gitlab repository.
>
> My first question is - is the migration over and can I submit translated files?
>
> Second, with SVN all I did was commit (of course after compiling and other tests). Now with Git, I fork + clone, translate and then send a merge request? Right? Is there a guide for submitting po files?
>
> Third, I need a little git/kde geography. What path do I clone from, from git? Is there an efficient path that concerns translations only or more specifically albanian translations.
>
> Thanks,
> //Agron
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:36 AM Nicolás Alvarez <nalvarez at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> El dom., 12 de abr. de 2020 a la(s) 05:57, Ben Cooksley
>> (bcooksley at kde.org) escribió:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > As you may be aware, KDE is currently undertaking a migration to Gitlab.
>> >
>> > As part of this, we also need to migrate our Subversion repository
>> > from the server it currently resides on to the new system that also
>> > hosts Gitlab. To simplify our systems we will also transition
>> > management of SSH keys to Gitlab when we do this.
>> >
>> > It is intended at this time that we perform the migration of the
>> > Subversion repository next weekend.
>> >
>> > We therefore need all holders of a Developer account, even if they
>> > only use our Subversion repository, to login to Gitlab and upload
>> > their SSH keys there.
>> >
>> > Our Gitlab instance can be found at https://invent.kde.org/ and you
>> > should be able to login there using your KDE Identity
>> > (identity.kde.org) details.
>> >
>> > Additionally, following this migration we will begin limiting access
>> > to the Subversion repository to those actively using it. The list of
>> > people whose access will be continued can be found at
>> > https://cgit.kde.org/repo-management.git/tree/svn-ssh-keys/users-list
>> >
>> > Should you still need access to the repository, but are not on the
>> > above list, please let us know by emailing sysadmin at kde.org.
>> >
>> > If anyone has any questions on the above, please let us know.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to add that this server migration will also change the SSH
>> host keys for "svn.kde.org". After we switch servers, you will get the
>> nasty "WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!" message from
>> ssh when you use SVN. To avoid this, you should add the new keys to
>> your ~/.ssh/known_hosts. You don't need to wait for the server switch,
>> you can add it now (keeping both old and new keys in the file) and it
>> will Just Work.
>>
>> I have added instructions for all these changes and the new ssh host
>> keys to the wiki:
>> https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion/2020_Changes
>>
>> --
>> Nicolás
>> KDE Sysadmin Team




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