For those not following the Drupal.org home page, the Drupal.org CVS -> Git migration we told you about last newsletter is scheduled to launch February 17. There are a number of things that ALL CVS account holders MUST do ASAP in order to prepare for the migration.

*Once the migration is complete, that's it; CVS will be cut off, Git will be in place. It is /absolutely imperative/ that each and every one of you perform these steps in advance of the migration.* Thanks for your immediate attention to this.

Key points:

* Do you want credit for your commits? Read about how to set up your Git identification. * Do you want to be able to make new projects and changes to your existing projects after February 17? Read about how to test Git on our staging site. * Do you want people to be able to download your code? Read about how reviewing your existing projects' data.

Keep up on the latest news by http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-git-migration-team or Twitter: https://twitter.com/drupalgitgremln.

-------- SET UP YOUR GIT IDENTIFICATION --------------------------------------

Git associates commits with a name and e-mail address, rather than a username as in CVS. In order to ensure that you are properly credited for both your legacy and future contributions post-Git migration, please complete the following steps *by February 13*:

* Download and install Git. There are lots of resources on the Internet about how to do this. http://book.git-scm.com/2_installing_git.html is one. * Specify your desired full name and e-mail address to associate with your migrated CVS commits in your drupal.org user profile: http://drupal.org/node/1018116 * Use the instructions at http://drupal.org/node/1022156 to identify yourself to Git with your specified name and e-mail address. This will ensure all future commits are also credited to your account. * If you wish to use another e-mail address (for example, one associated with your GitHub account), http://drupal.org/node/1018118 has instructions on how to associate additional e-mail addresses with your Drupal.org account. * If you don't like your current CVS username and want to switch it when we migrate to Git, you have *exactly one and only one chance to change it*. Leave a comment at http://drupal.org/node/1036140 with your current CVS username, your Drupal.org user ID, and your desired Git username. [A-Za-z0-9._-] are the allowed characters.

For more information, see http://drupal.org/node/1037478.

-------- TEST THE GIT MIGRATION ----------------------------------------------

The Git migration team has set up http://git-dev.drupal.org/, a staging server where you can test your day-to-day maintainership tasks and familiarize yourself with Git. There is a helpful screencast at http://vimeo.com/19467580 which walks through everything you need to (and can) do, and http://drupal.org/help-test-cvs-git-migration contains the text version.

Important notes (READ ME!):

* *Testing will only be open during certain hours of the day*. During this pre-launch period we're also going to be doing performance optimization and integrating new code to fix bugs, so to allow ample time the server will have certain "blackout" periods. There is a wiki page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/119449 which contains the current status of the system as well as rebuild schedules. Read the Apache password prompt on http://git-dev.drupal.org. It will tell you the current state of the system. * *To log in to http://git-dev.drupal.org/, you must first reset your password.*. This is a basic security precaution for our development sites. You can do this from http://git-dev.drupal.org/user/password. * */All/ users, including current CVS account holders, need to agree to terms of use in order to obtain Git access.* There are instructions for doing this at http://drupal.org/node/1047190. * *The server will be rebuilt every two days.* Each time that happens, you'll lose any projects and code changes you made, and also need to repeat the "reset password" and "agree to git terms" steps /again/ in order to continue testing. * *If you find problems, please log them against the Git Migration Community Testing issue queue (http://drupal.org/project/issues/git_dev).* Make sure whatever you're reporting doesn't show up in our list of known issues [1] first. One of our team members will triage bug reports and support requests, and then push them into the correct issue queue, if necessary. There is also a #drupal-gitsupport channel on irc.freenode.net for new Git users (and experienced Git users who want to help make the transition as smooth as possible :)).

-------- REVIEW YOUR EXISTING PROJECTS' DATA ---------------------------------

One aspect of the migration is pulling in all legacy CVS data and converting it to Git. It's important to check over your own projects' data and ensure it looks correct.

* Does http://git-dev.drupalcode.org/ show the proper branches/tags for your projects, and list the proper commits associated with the proper users? * Have your commit messages been imported in properly under the "Your commits" and "Project commits" views on git-dev.drupal.org? * When you download tarballs and zipballs of your project releases, do they extract cleanly, and contain what they should? * Do they install properly and function as they should?

-------- HELP US! ------------------------------------------------------------

And finally, if you already know Git well, please:

* Hang out in #drupal-gitsupport to help support new users. * Help with support requests and cleaning up duplicate issues in the Git Community Testing queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/git_dev * Help write or improve the documentation: http://drupal.org/handbook/git

We need all the help we can get in order to make this as smooth a transition as possible! Once Git goes live, CVS is dead, dead, dead. Hooray!

[1] http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/git_dev?text=&assigned=&subm...