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Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:39:15 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> as you probably know berlios is going to be shut down at the end of the |
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> year so we should probably find/create alternative download locations |
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> for the packages in the main tree. |
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FWIW, the latest development is that BerliOS might not be shutting down |
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after all. This just came in on my feed-reader today (watch the wrap): |
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Rescue in sight for BerliOS OSS repository |
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Rescue-in-sight-for-BerliOS-OSS-repository-1369245.html |
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It seems a non-profit development association is being setup to take |
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things over, with FOKUS (the current hosts who were shutting it down) |
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offering to continue to provide bandwidth and the current dedicated |
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systems for the time being, altho they won't be dedicating new resources |
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to it so other hosting will be needed in the medium term. (The current |
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issue and highest cost factor for FOKUS was staffing costs. Volunteers |
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will apparently take over there.) |
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But of course it could still fall thru as the new organization is still |
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being setup and negotiations are still ongoing, so continuing on course |
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to make other arrangements is still prudent. But those with affected |
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packages may wish to track or to get involved with this, as well. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |