The BerliOS project
The goal of BerliOS is to provide support for different interest groups
in the area of Open Source Software (OSS). Our aim is to fulfil a neutral
mediator function. The target groups of BerliOS are on one hand the
developers and
users of Open Source Software and on the other
hand manufacturers of
OSS operating systems and applications as well as
support companies.
BerliOS: Technical improvements and cooperation with SourceForge
Dear BerliOS developers and users,
Since announcing that BerliOS will continue to operate, the BerliOS team has worked hard to improve the portal.
Among the technical improvements at BerliOS is the new NFS file server with increased storage capacity. The transfer of other
services to the new hardware is in progress. In addition, automatic snapshots were introduced, so that accidentally deleted
files can be restored easily by the user. Snaphots are available every hour, every week and every month under
/net/nfs-bd/vol1/.zfs/snapshot.
In order to guarantee safe operation and maintain download availability to the user, BerliOS needed mirror servers.
For this purpose, a cooperation agreement was signed with SourceForge. The main focus of the collaboration is to utilize
SourceForge’s global mirror network for BerliOS downloads. Primary and secondary SourceForge mirrors are available for
BerliOS users as of February 18th, 2012. Moreover, for each BerliOS project there is now a corresponding project website
available on SourceForge under the URL http://sourceforge.net/projects/${name}.berlios/. This makes it possible to load files,
even if the BerliOS project server is offline. An automatic redirection to the local BerliOS Download Server is provided:
- at a total black-out of SourceForge,
- if a file can not be found on the mirror, or
- if a download is requested from a U.S. export embargo country.
All downloads on SourceForge can be reviewed using the new comprehensive statistics package at SourceForge.
A sample project is available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux.berlios/files,
and sum statistics can be found under
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux.berlios/files/stats/timeline.
The BerliOS Community is currently drafting a statute which will create a clear structure of the future
Association that will govern the operation of the platform. You'll find all the details on the creation of this
association on the BerliOS Mailing list: https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/berlios-verein.
Fraunhofer FOKUS
www.fokus.fraunhofer.de
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