Important note to administrators of Novell Forge projects

When Novell Forge was first launched Novell recognized the need for a site dedicated to providing hosting services to a growing number of software development projects, many supporting our open source initiatives. Novell Forge quickly grew and was soon providing these service to nearly 1000 such projects. Demand for new projects has all but disappeared during the past two years while a number of additional project hosting options have begun that can provide a similar set of services to those of Novell Forge.

Now that there are many other options, Novell can turn its focus to other areas and pass the project hosting responsibilities to these other dedicated hosting sites. Novell will be decommissioning the Novell Forge system on December 18, 2009. What follows is a time line for this process which will allow owners of Novell Forge projects to locate new homes and make the transition to their new hosting site of choice.

On December 18, 2009 Novell Forge will be decommissioned. No further access will be available to project contents.

Below we will list a few of these other hosting sites that you might want to consider as a new home for your project. Please note Novell is making no recommendations regarding any specific hosting site. Your selection of a hosting site should be based on your requirements and how closely the offerings of a given site fit those needs.

Google Code

SourceForge

GitHub

You might also wish to review the Wikipedia comparison of hosting facilities here.

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Manage your projects

A series of special pages has been created to help you manage your project. Please look through the Help:Project Hosting Services page to learn more about what services we offer and how to gain access to them.

• The project administration page allows you to administer most parts of your project.
• A set of custom tags and templates are available for your project pages.
• A link to upload public keys is always available from your user page.
• Are you a Novell Forge user and lost among all of the changes? If so, see the help for forge users page.

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