[gentoo-dev] Re: Shutdown of berlios

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:39:15 +0200 as excerpted:

> as you probably know berlios is going to be shut down at the end of the
> year so we should probably find/create alternative download locations
> for the packages in the main tree.

FWIW, the latest development is that BerliOS might not be shutting down
after all.  This just came in on my feed-reader today (watch the wrap):

Rescue in sight for BerliOS OSS repository

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Rescue-in-sight-for-BerliOS-OSS-repository-1369245.html

It seems a non-profit development association is being setup to take
things over, with FOKUS (the current hosts who were shutting it down)
offering to continue to provide bandwidth and the current dedicated
systems for the time being, altho they won't be dedicating new resources
to it so other hosting will be needed in the medium term.  (The current
issue and highest cost factor for FOKUS was staffing costs.  Volunteers
will apparently take over there.)

But of course it could still fall thru as the new organization is still
being setup and negotiations are still ongoing, so continuing on course
to make other arrangements is still prudent. But those with affected
packages may wish to track or to get involved with this, as well.

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