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-[gerrit]
-host=review.openstack.org
-port=29418
-project=stackforge/congressmiddleware.git
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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+This project is no longer maintained.
+
+The contents of this repository are still available in the Git source code
+management system. To see the contents of this repository before it reached
+its end of life, please check out the previous commit with 
+"git checkout HEAD^1".
+