Hi Ben,

> On 11 Apr 2020, at 8:14 pm, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As part of the preparations for the move to Gitlab, and the rewrite of
> our anongit tooling, one of the things we have looked into is how the
> anongit network in general operates.
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> As part of this, it has been observed that the git:// protocol is
> unencrypted, and thus vulnerable to intercept and manipulation by
> hostile actors.
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> We have therefore decided that support for the git:// protocol to
> access KDE Git repositories will cease following our migration to
> Gitlab.
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> Going forward, all anonymous access should take place instead over
> https, which is encrypted, and has the added benefit of offering
> support for redirects (should those be needed)
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> Should anyone have any questions regarding this, please let us know.

I am a former KDE developer but AFAIK my account and access have long =
since expired.

However I still hover on kde-devel, kde-games-devel and and Apple OSX =
list (MacPorts users) and am sometimes able to suggest solutions to =
problems that come up, for which I need read-only access to source code =
from anongit. I have some questions regarding how things will work in =
future.

1. Will the general public still have open access to browse KDE source =
code repositories on screens?

2. Will I be able to clone a read-only copy of a KDE repository (I have =
no intention of committing to central repos)?

3. Will I be able to do the above without having to know any account ID, =
password or encryption key?

Thanks and best regards,
Ian Wadham.