It's been a while that I have been wondering about the mid term usefulness of http://garage.maemo.org . It made a lot of sense when it started in 2005, but nowadays there is a variety of rock solid services providing all those services, only not in a single place.

But how relevant is to have an ok-ish single place when with simple links you can have at reach free infrastructure like gitorious.org, transifex.net, wordpress.com, your closest bugzilla, etc?

The last garage project I created had as basically main purpose the obtention of a mailing list. I guess we could also have a default recommendation for project mailing lists.

Conclusion: http://gforge.org itself is not a simple beast to maintain, leave alone to customize, and the benefits nowadays are probably slim. So why not leaving it in pure maintenance mode, pointing developers to the current better alternatives instead of trying to add even more beef there?