Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:37:04 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FYI: BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011 Message-ID: <20111001103704.GE41897@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <4E85FBFD.3080605@yandex.ru> References: <4E85FBFD.3080605@yandex.ru>
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* Ruslan Mahmatkhanov (cvs-src@yandex.ru) wrote: > """ > [...] > Unfortunately, as a research institute Fraunhofer FOKUS has only few > opportunities to operate a repository like BerliOS. Such a project will > only work with a follow-up financing, or with sponsors or partners > taking over the repository. In the field of OSS this is a difficult > undertaking. In a recent survey the community indicated some support in > funds and manpower which we would like to thank you for. Unfortunately, > the result is not enough to put the project on a sustainable financial > basis. In addition the search for sponsors or partners was not successful. > > Open Source is understood by Fraunhofer FOKUS as a paradigm for > future-oriented intelligent use of IT. It hurts us all the more that we > are forced to discontinue the hosting for BerliOS by 31.12.2011. > [...] > """ I've mirrored (seemingly) all the distfiles we fetch from berlios here: http://mirror.amdmi3.ru/berlios/ so by the moment of cutoff MASTER_SITE_BERLIOS may just be changed to http://mirror.amdmi3.ru/berlios/download.berlios.de/%SUBDIR%/ and some individual ports' Makefiles (namely slim-themes and ngircd) tweaked. That's only 217M, so there's no much problem. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru
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