Re: Software Heritage

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-01 00:03 +0300) wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The Software Heritage project has just been publicly announced:
>
>   https://www.softwareheritage.org/
>   https://www.inria.fr/en/news/news-from-inria/launching-of-software-heritage
>
> Very roughly it’s a big source code archive.  What this means for us is
> that we’ll hopefully be able to use it as a content-addressed mirror¹.
> Unfortunately, it’s not yet possible to download from the archive;
> I guess it will be coming soon.
>
> Anyway, in light of the various problems with disappearing and/or
> compromised commercial software hosting sites (Gitorious…), as well as
> problems with sites that do not preserve old archives and/or modify them
> in place, just to name a few, I think this is a great initiative.

Woohoo!!!  This is really great!

-- 
Alex