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+This project is no longer maintained.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".
+
+For any further questions, please email
+openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org or join #openstack-dev on
+Freenode.