# Help migrating my orb to orb-tools v11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Orbs\ **Tags:** orbs\ **Created:** [August 24, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/help-migrating-my-orb-to-orb-tools-v11/45188 "2022-08-24T23:05:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mathomp4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/mathomp4/32/25343_2.png) [@mathomp4](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/mathomp4)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/help-migrating-my-orb-to-orb-tools-v11/45188/1 "2022-08-24T23:05:02Z")
All, I decided to try and follow along with the orb-tools migration guide here: > and I think I might have…done something wrong. To wit, I’ve been able to update my orb just fine with the old “`[semver:minor]` in commit message” style of publishing, but I figure if CircleCI is moving on from that in new orbs, I should update my current orb as well. Unfortunately, when I tried that, the branch I pushed is failing on the publish step in the PR: > > > This PR is to migrate circleci-tools to use orb-tools v11.0: > > https://github.c…om/CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb > > I followed this guide: > > https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb/blob/master/MIGRATION.md where I get: ```auto Preparing to publish your orb. Development release detected! Error: Unable to publish orb: Non-nullable field was null. Namespace 'GEOS-ESM' not found. Exited with code exit status 255 CircleCI received exit code 255 ``` So…yeah. Frankly, I always considered it a miracle that I got my original orb to work as it was a bit trial-and-error, but I’m learning. I did try adding a `GITHUB_TOKEN` per the migration guide but I don’t think this error is related to that…right? Please let me know how I can help to figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![KyleTryon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/kyletryon/32/9977_2.png) [@KyleTryon](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/KyleTryon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/help-migrating-my-orb-to-orb-tools-v11/45188/2 "2022-08-29T14:26:53Z")
> [@mathomp4](#): > > o wit, I’ve been able to update my orb just fine with the old “`[semver:minor]` in commit message” style of publishing, but I figure if CircleCI is moving on from that in new orbs, I should upd Hello @mathomp4 I took a look into it and I think the error you are receiving appears to be accurate. From what I can tell, there is no namespace registered to `GEOS-ESM` And Today I Learned, I just went to the orb registry to check it out and noticed that it does exist, but it is all lowercase, and this actually matters. I ran a query again as `geos-esm` and found you. Try again, but with all lowercase. ---
**Author:** ![mathomp4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/mathomp4/32/25343_2.png) [@mathomp4](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/mathomp4)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/help-migrating-my-orb-to-orb-tools-v11/45188/3 "2022-08-29T15:15:54Z")
Thanks for the help @KyleTryon. That was it. My guess is that when I ran `migrate.sh`, I told it my namespace was my org name `GEOS-ESM`. But as you say, orb namespaces seem to all be lowercase. I edited up the yaml files, and got past this error. Had a few others after that, but I think it’s all good now. Now I just need to buckle up my courage to press the merge button! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/help-migrating-my-orb-to-orb-tools-v11/45188/4 "2022-09-08T15:16:45Z")
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