</section>
<section id="alioth">
-<title>Debian *Forge: Alioth</title>
+<title>Debian's GForge installation: Alioth</title>
<para>
-Alioth is a fairly new Debian service, based on a slightly modified version of
-the GForge software (which evolved from SourceForge). This software offers
-developers access to easy-to-use tools such as bug trackers, patch manager,
-project/task managers, file hosting services, mailing lists, CVS repositories
-etc. All these tools are managed via a web interface.
+Alioth is a Debian service based on a slightly modified version of the
+GForge software (which evolved from SourceForge). This software offers
+developers access to easy-to-use tools such as bug trackers, patch
+manager, project/task managers, file hosting services, mailing lists, CVS
+repositories etc. All these tools are managed via a web interface.
</para>
<para>
It is intended to provide facilities to free software projects backed or led by
Debian, facilitate contributions from external developers to projects started
by Debian, and help projects whose goals are the promotion of Debian or its
-derivatives.
+derivatives. It's heavily used by many Debian teams and provides
+hosting for all sorts of VCS repositories.
</para>
<para>
All Debian developers automatically have an account on Alioth. They can
request guest accounts on Alioth.
</para>
<para>
-For more information please visit <ulink
-url="&url-alioth;"></ulink>.
+For more information please visit the following links:
+<list>
+<item><ulink url="&url-alioth-wiki;" /></item>
+<item><ulink url="&url-alioth-faq;" /></item>
+<item><ulink url="&url-alioth-pkg;" /></item>
+<item><ulink url="&url-alioth;" /></item>
+</list>
</para>
</section>
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