The new git.moblin.org server is up.

If I missed a tree that you had ssh access to before, then it can still
be accessed using the name v1.moblin.org, but I don't know how long that
machine will stay around.

    --rusty

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:44 -0700, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> When we first started the Moblin project, we hosted git source
> repositories using traditional unix accounts where granting somebody
> write access required a user account with the use of unix groups to
> control who could write.
> 
> This was a pain from day one for a number of reasons, and if any of you
> have tried managing a bunch of repos like this then you know what I'm
> talking about.
> 
> On my first trip to meet the OpenedHand guys face-2-face, they turned me
> on to a pretty cool project called gitosis which only requires one user,
> and then uses ssh keys to manage who has access to what repos.  When
> this is combined with a git-daemon providing read-only access via the
> git:// protocol, and then something like cgit to provide a web interface
> for browsing the source.... well, it works out to be a nice way of
> managing a source repository sever.
> 
> For those that are curious, a great article about gitosis can be found
> at:
> http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way
> 
> We started using gitosis on git.moblin.org to host new projects, but
> didn't really talk about it, didn't attempt to move all the existing
> projects, and never had a proper web interface to expose the project
> that lived in gitosis (as opposed to the old location on the server.)
> 
> Now that we have a bunch of new projects starting to land, I want to go
> ahead and start with a fresh new machine configured in a sustainable way
> using gitosis, git-daemon (for read-only access), and cgit.
> 
> If you currently have write access to a git tree on moblin (that is not
> using gitosis), then please send me your public ssh key and the name of
> the tree that you work on.
> 
> I'll send another email right before doing switch.
> 
>     --rusty
> 
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