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+### HISTORIC REPO: Apache Brooklyn has graduated!
+
+This is the historical **incubator** repo for Apache Brooklyn. 
+This version of the codebase is no longer active. 
+
+**You're probably in the wrong place.**
+
+Visit:
+
+* **The Active Codebase**: at [http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)
+* **The Apache Brooklyn Homepage**: at [http://brooklyn.apache.org/](http://brooklyn.apache.org/)
+
+### About the Incubator Project
+
+Apache Brooklyn was in the Apache Incubator until the end of 2015, on version `0.9.0-SNAPSHOT`.
+At this time it graduated to become a top-level Apache Software Foundation project,
+and the code moved from `incubator-brooklyn` to `brooklyn` and several other projects `brooklyn-*`.
+
+Versions `0.8.0-incubating` and before can be found in and built from this repo,
+along with the last commit to `0.9.0-SNAPSHOT` from which development has continued
+in `apache/brooklyn` and sub-projects.
+
+The sub-directories in this project correspond to multiple separate repositories now in the `apache` org.
+The link above to **[the Active Codebase](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)** started life exactly 
+as a copy of [`brooklyn/`](brooklyn/) in this folder, 
+as an uber-project for the other `brooklyn-*` folders, including the `server` and the `ui`,
+which are now top-level repos in the `apache` org.
+
+
+### To Build
+
+This historic version of the code can be built with:
+
+    mvn clean install
+
+This creates a build of the last incubator SNAPSHOT version in `usage/dist/target/brooklyn-dist`. Run 
+with `bin/brooklyn launch`. Although really you probably want **[the Active Codebase](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)**.
+
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-# [![**Brooklyn**](https://brooklyn.apache.org/style/img/apache-brooklyn-logo-244px-wide.png)](http://brooklyn.apache.org/)
+### HISTORIC REPO: Apache Brooklyn has graduated!
 
-### Apache Brooklyn **Incubator** Historic Repo
+This is the historical **incubator** repo for Apache Brooklyn. 
+This version of the codebase is no longer active. 
 
-This is the historical **incubator** repo for Apache Brooklyn.
+**You're probably in the wrong place.**
 
-## Brooklyn has graduated. Visit us [here](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/).
+Visit:
 
-The sub-directories in this project correspond to multiple separate repositories in apache.
-(The link above to `brooklyn/` started life exactly as a copy of [`brooklyn/`](brooklyn/)
-in this folder, as an uber-project for the others, including the `server` and the `ui`.)
+* **The Active Codebase**: at [http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)
+* **The Apache Brooklyn Homepage**: at [http://brooklyn.apache.org/](http://brooklyn.apache.org/)
+
+### About the Incubator Project
+
+Apache Brooklyn was in the Apache Incubator until the end of 2015, on version `0.9.0-SNAPSHOT`.
+At this time it graduated to become a top-level Apache Software Foundation project,
+and the code moved from `incubator-brooklyn` to `brooklyn` and several other projects `brooklyn-*`.
+
+Versions `0.8.0-incubating` and before can be found in and built from this repo,
+along with the last commit to `0.9.0-SNAPSHOT` from which development has continued
+in `apache/brooklyn` and sub-projects.
+
+The sub-directories in this project correspond to multiple separate repositories now in the `apache` org.
+The link above to **[the Active Codebase](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)** started life exactly 
+as a copy of [`brooklyn/`](brooklyn/) in this folder, 
+as an uber-project for the other `brooklyn-*` folders, including the `server` and the `ui`,
+which are now top-level repos in the `apache` org.
 
 
 ### To Build
 
-The code can be built with a:
+This historic version of the code can be built with:
 
     mvn clean install
 
-This creates a build in `usage/dist/target/brooklyn-dist`.  Run with `bin/brooklyn launch`.
+This creates a build of the last incubator SNAPSHOT version in `usage/dist/target/brooklyn-dist`. Run 
+with `bin/brooklyn launch`. Although really you probably want **[the Active Codebase](http://github.com/apache/brooklyn/)**.