Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

[Chris Jones]

> On 22 Oct 2016, at 12:54 pm, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Clemens Lang 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.
> 
> Is there/will there be a story for people who cannot use rsync to pull down
> updates because they're behind a restrictive proxy?
> 
> This affects one of the three computers on which I maintain a MacPorts
> installation.  I currently use the mechanisms described at
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN> to get around this,
> but of course those instructions are coupled very tightly to SVN.

This probably should not be necessary with github, as it use ssh or https . 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
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