The same could be said of gitorious.org shutting down, but for the past 8 months it&#x27;s been inaccessible by the Web or via git. It&#x27;s just recently returned as a read-only archive (thanks to archive.org, I believe); they claim that clone URLs should work again now, although I&#x27;ve not had reason to try one yet.<p>Keep in mind that even with announcements and long shutdowns, many projects would be lost without officially-sanctioned archiving; either because their author has moved on, or they might do all of their project interaction via git commands and never see warnings on the Web interface.