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BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011

Last Friday the BerliOS team announced that the repository will be closed on the last day of the current year. The BerliOS repository was launched 11 years ago and it was a reference site to the libre software community. Now, due to economic problems the team (Fraunhofer FOKUS) decided to it shutdown.
The message below was posted in the BerliOS forge on September 30th 2011:

BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011

Dear BerliOS developers and users,

Links collection about software forges: status, criticism and new ideas

During the last two years it is quite common to hear about new software forges, but I'm not going to talk about forges proliferation in this post, what I would to like to discuss is what the next step in collaborative development environments is. Thus in order to get the big picture I spent some hours looking for scientific and "informal" publications, now I think I have a good starting point and it would be great if you can offer feedback or even improve it.