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BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End
An anonymous reader writes with some sad news from Germany, as posted on the BerliOS front page, and sent by email to developers as well. An excerpt: "As an European, non-proprietary project BerliOS pursued the goal to support the various open-source players and provide a neutral mediator function. In 2011 over 4710 projects have been hosted on BerliOS, with 50,000 registered users and over 2.6 million file downloads each month. We are proud that with BerliOS we have brought the idea of an OSS repository to Europe. Meanwhile, the concept has prevailed and there are many good alternatives. 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 unsuccessful. ... As a developer, you should export your BerliOS project into another repository." BerliOS is slated to close on December 31st.
BerliOS we Berli knew ye.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
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And nothing of value was lost.
I know the SF overlords are listening. I bet a lot of people will want to migrate their projects from berlios to another site...
I started researching tools and writing scripts to split up a repository and move to github yesterday.
If you have a complicated non-standard svn layout, you should look into the svn2git on gitorious (there are many tools with that name).
I guess granola-eating doesn't pay the bills after all.
Hi. As someone else mentioned in some German forum, it is probable that all orphaned projects on BerliOS will perish the day BerliOS is taken down for good. - Anyone here who could offer a full mirror of the data. Or would Archive.org be an option? zapyon
I like my spaghetti with source.
BerliOS definitely has publicity problems. Either that, or the people running it don't have much of a passion for keeping it running, because the first I heard about them having problems was about them deciding to shut it down.
Contrast that to, say, Wikipedia, Blender, or The Document Foundation. Major publicity when they needed money, with progress tallies and everything. Especially Wikipedia.
Have a nice time.
I am not [i]an[/i] European.
I am a European.
An English one at that.
An is reserved for when there is a vowel SOUND not a vowel character (see above).
A lot of the problems related to foundraising were due to the dubious nature of the founder and the understandable reluctance people had with dealing with him. From the Grand Hoover Dam to the Snow Mountain River to the outter steppes of Mongolia to the frosted wastelands of Siberia, you could ask anyway from Ali to Zaza his Phone # and get the same reply, 867-5309.
Yeah, their fundraiser got so much publicity it became memetic.
No more funds for anything else. Fraunhofer is fundet by the public (some 30%) and state contracts (the rest), so I guess they will take a major blow as Europe will slowly and painfully shut down.
Who's heart's bleeding? The Faunhofer Institute, isn't that the bunch of goons that burn government money and then want money for the stuff they come up with? A sense of warmth is not what comes up immediately whenever the name is mentioned.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
An ideal storage solution for open source projects is the distributed cloud storage of the Freenet project.
It's been a fantastic symphony, but sure seems like whoever screwed up should be marched to the scaffold right now.
I am officially gone from
This is something for ibiblio , you could contact them perhaps?
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I look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
and think, how can ANYONE get a handle on archiving this?
archive.org certainly isn't going to do this.
This is something the Open Source community is going to have to deal with. Just how, exactly do
you preserve something is big that is constantly changing? Archive off the static projects?
All the hosted projects should be archived. I was looking for an older uvcvideo driver source the other day and all the links Google pointed me to were dead BerliOS links. It was a very maddening experience.
I offer to host an archived version of BerliOS over a dedicated 35Mbps (symmetric) connection and have systems and TBs of hard drive space to spare. Please get in touch with me if you think this will help. Whatever you do, don't kill the whole thing. Not all projects will get exported before the closure. That would be a terrible waste.
code not suitable for export to countries such as Iran according to US foreign policy rules
I don't think Britain falls under the description, "such as Iran". Any export is controlled by US foreign policy rules, silly.
I think "countries such as Iran" alluded to license exception TSU. This exception applies to exports of publicly available cryptographic source code (or binaries built from such source code) and has two caveats. First, it applies only to countries other than Country Group E:1 (Cuba, Iran, DPRK, etc.), which could be construed as requiring IP address geolocation. Second, the publisher has to advertise each project to the U.S. government. Some people may have objected to this notification requirement.
Archiving should be distributed.