[Maintainers-news] Drupal migrates to Git on Thursday, February 24th

[maintainers-news at drupal.org]

The Drupal.org CVS -> Git migration is nearly upon us! There are just *hours*
left now until the big day (Thursday, February 24)! We will be doing a final
verification of data integrity before launch but while
http://git-dev.drupal.org is open for testing we invite you to spot-check
your projects. If you have time, comprehensive instructions for verifying
project data (as well as other steps you can take to help test and prepare
yourself for the migration) are available at
http://groups.drupal.org/node/128294. The migration team has taken numerous
steps to ensure the integrity of migrated project data, but there is no
substitute for the attention a project maintainer can give to her or his own
code. Additionally, please be advised that starting at Thursday, February 24,
23:00 UTC [1] (3PM PST, 6PM EST), there will be approximately *12 hours* of
downtime while the migration completes. This is the most comprehensive and
extensive change to Drupal.org in recent memory - perhaps ever. Therefore,
the Infrastructure & Git Migration teams need an extended buffer of time to
perform the migration, verify the data, and check for and resolve any issues.
For more information on what exactly this downtime entails, please see
http://drupal.org/node/1068664. Thanks very much for your help, and we’ll
see you on the other side!

[1] http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx