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This describes the steps necessary to rename a project in Fedora Hosted.

Rename the Trac instance

cd /srv/web/trac/projects
mv oldname newname
cd newname/conf
sed -i -e 's/oldname/newname/' trac.ini
cd ..
sudo -u apache trac-admin .
  resync

Rename the git / svn / hg / ... directory

cd /git
mv oldname.git newname.git

Rename any old releases directories

cd /srv/web/releases/o/l/oldname
(somehow, the newname releases dir gets created; if there were old releases, move them to the new location).

Rename the group in FAS

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Don't blindly rename
fedorahosted groups are usually safe to rename. If the old group could be present in other apps/configs, though, (like provenpackagers, perl-sig, etc) do not rename them. The other apps would need to have the group name updated there as well to make this safe.
ssh db2
sudo -u postgres psql fas2
BEGIN;
select * from groups where name = '$OLDNAME';
update groups set name = '$NEWNAME' where name = '$OLDNAME';
-- Check that only one row was modified
select * from groups where name in ('$OLDNAME', '$NEWNAME');
-- Check that there's only one row and the name == $NEWNAME
-- If incorrect, do ROLLBACK; instead of commit
COMMIT;
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Don't delete groups
If, for some reason, you end up with a group in FAS that was a typo but it doesn't conflict with anything else, don't delete it without talking to other admins on fedora-infrastructure-list. The numeric group ids could be present on a filesystem somewhere and removing the group could eventually lead to the id being allocated to some other group which would give unintended people access to the files. As a group we can figure out what hosts and files need to be checked for this issue if a delete is needed.