BerliOS

German website

Not to be confused with Berlioz.

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BerliOS

Type of site

| Collaborative revision control and software development management system
Owner| Fraunhofer Society
Created by| Jörg Schilling[1]
URL| www.berlios.de
Commercial| No
Registration| Optional (required for creating and joining projects)
Launched| January 2000; 25 years ago (2000-01)
Current status| Inactive

BerliOS (short for "Berlin Open Source") is a project founded by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin,[1] to coordinate the different interest groups in the field of open source software (OSS) and to assume a neutral coordinator function. The target groups of BerliOS were developers and users of open source software on the one side and OSS-related companies on the other. As of January 1, 2022[update] its website was still accessible, though hosting no projects.

## Overview

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BerliOS consisted of several subprojects:

* DocsWell, a database for open source related documentation
* SourceWell, a news service for open source projects
* SourceLines, a "best practice" database for successful open source projects
* SourceBiz, a list of open source companies
* DevCounter, a database of open source developer profiles
* OpenFacts, a wiki-based open source knowledge database (using the MediaWiki software)
* SourceAgency (beta), a platform for coordinating open source funding

## Closure

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The operators of the BerliOS project announced that BerliOS would close at the end of 2011 due to lack of sufficient funding and support.[2] As the news of the pending closure spread, BerliOS received numerous rescue proposals. As a result, it was later announced that BerliOS would continue as a non-profit institute run by a combination of volunteers, donations and corporate sponsorship.[3]

On February 23, 2012, BerliOS announced on their blog that a cooperation agreement had been signed with SourceForge, which meant that all projects hosted on BerliOS' systems would be automatically mirrored in new and separate projects on SourceForge.[4] On April 4, 2012, SourceForge reiterated this statement on their blog and provided more specifics about the collaboration.[5]

In January 2014 BerliOS announced that they would disable their hosting services on 30 April 2014.[6]

## See also

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* Free and open-source software portal

* Comparison of open source software hosting facilities

## References

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1. ^ a b "Fraunhofer FOKUS | IT original Jörg Schilling has passed away". www.fokus.fraunhofer.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
2. ^ "BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011". BerliOS. 2011-09-30. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
3. ^ "BerliOS continues – non-profit association is founded". BerliOS. 2011-10-31. Archived from the original on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
4. ^ "BerliOS: Technical improvements and cooperation with SourceForge". BerliOS Developer Weblogs. 2012-02-23. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17.
5. ^ "BerliOS Projects Saved, Moving to SourceForge for Distribution". SourceForge Community Blog. 2012-04-04. Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
6. ^ "Neues berliOS-Portal gestartet". BerliOS. 2014-01-28. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2016-07-12.

## External links

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* BackupTheBerlios on GitHub

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Bug tracking systems

Years indicate the date of first stable release.

Client-server|

| Free software|

* GNATS (1992)
* Debbugs (1994 / 1999)
* Bugzilla (1998)
* Request Tracker (1999)
* MantisBT (2000)
* Roundup (2001)
* Trac (2004)
* Redmine (2006)
* Apache Allura (2009)
* Maniphest (2010)
* Tuleap (2011)
* GitLab (2011)
* Apache Bloodhound (2012)
* Gitea (2016)
* Codeberg (2019)

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Proprietary|

* Helix ALM (formerly TestTrack) (1998)
* Axosoft (2002)
* Jira (2002)
* Azure DevOps Server (2005)
* YouTrack (2009)

Distributed|

| Free software|

* Fossil (2006)

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Proprietary|

* Azure DevOps Server (2013)

SaaS-only|

* SourceForge (1999)
* GNU Savannah (2000)
* OSDN (2002)
* Launchpad (2004)
* Assembla (2005)
* CodePlex (2006) discontinued
* GitHub (2008)
* Bitbucket (2008)
* YouTrack (2011)
* Azure DevOps Services (2012)

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