Gitorious aims to provide a great way of doing distributed opensource code collaboration
Traditional code- and project forges offer many great things and has without a question helped developers of open source software. However, there's always the issue of long-term maintainability; as humans we always get distracted, busy and or just plain tired of working with things in the long run.
Distributed version control provides a way around this by making everyones copy a full repository, so if people like someone elses stuff better, or that someone else is actively maintaining the project they can just pull from that person instead of the "official" repository. And if the project maintainer decides to, he can pull those changes into his mainline branch. That's what makes open source great.
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