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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:17:50
Message-Id: pan.2011.10.31.21.16.32@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Shutdown of berlios by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:39:15 +0200 as excerpted:
2
3 > as you probably know berlios is going to be shut down at the end of the
4 > year so we should probably find/create alternative download locations
5 > for the packages in the main tree.
6
7 FWIW, the latest development is that BerliOS might not be shutting down
8 after all. This just came in on my feed-reader today (watch the wrap):
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10 Rescue in sight for BerliOS OSS repository
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12 http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Rescue-in-sight-for-BerliOS-OSS-repository-1369245.html
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14 It seems a non-profit development association is being setup to take
15 things over, with FOKUS (the current hosts who were shutting it down)
16 offering to continue to provide bandwidth and the current dedicated
17 systems for the time being, altho they won't be dedicating new resources
18 to it so other hosting will be needed in the medium term. (The current
19 issue and highest cost factor for FOKUS was staffing costs. Volunteers
20 will apparently take over there.)
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22 But of course it could still fall thru as the new organization is still
23 being setup and negotiations are still ongoing, so continuing on course
24 to make other arrangements is still prudent. But those with affected
25 packages may wish to track or to get involved with this, as well.
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27 --
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29 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
30 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman