Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

[Joe Linoff]

Thank you Clemens. That is great.

Cheers,

Joe

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> Hello MacPorts users and developers,
>
> MacPorts will be moving to GitHub soon. We're sending this email to
> inform you about changes in how you access the MacPorts repositories and
> bug tracker. Additionally, this email contains information on planned
> downtimes.
>
> Action Required: GitHub Accounts
> ================================
> Our new Trac installation will use GitHub for login. If you do not have
> a GitHub account yet, please create one now at
>  https://github.com/join
>
> To help us match your previous contributions and Trac tickets to your
> GitHub account, please go to
>  https://github.com/settings/emails
> and ensure that you have added and verified all email addresses you have
> used for MacPorts Trac. There is no need for any of these addresses to
> be the primary one, or even public. They just need to be listed and
> verified.
>
> If you are a MacPorts committer, please make sure that you have added
> your @macports.org address.
>
> Action Required by MacPorts Developers: Joining the GitHub Organization
> =======================================================================
> If you are a MacPorts developer and have commit access, please send the
> following mail to macports-infra at lists.macports.org:
>  Subject: Please invite me to MacPorts on GitHub
>  Content:
>   Handle: <your-macports-handle>
> We will send an invite to join the MacPorts organization on GitHub to
> your MacPorts email address. Follow the steps in this invitation email
> to get commit access to the MacPorts Git repositories and privileges in
> Trac.
>
> Migration Timeline
> ==================
> The switch to Git will happen on the weekend of October 29th/30th. We
> will disable committing to the Subversion repository, run a last
> incremental export to Git and push the changes to GitHub. If you have
> commit access, please do not commit to the repositories at GitHub until
> a mail to the list indicates the conversion is done. Please read through
>  https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit
> which contains a number of guidelines for working with the MacPorts Git
> repositories.
>
> We will also place our old Trac instance in read-only mode and move the
> tickets to our new instance. Note that the new Trac instance uses GitHub
> for login. We recommend that you have added and verified all email
> addresses that you used for filing tickets in Trac to your GitHub
> account before you log in to the new Trac. For MacPorts developers, this
> includes your MacPorts email address. This will allow us to
> automatically transfer your tickets to your new user account.
>
> Due to the current SVN and Trac downtime, we are also discussing to make
> the move of Trac sooner if that helps us restore service earlier. We
> will keep you informed on this.
>
>
> On behalf of the MacPorts migration team,
> Clemens Lang
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>
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