Re: Software Heritage

[Chris Marusich]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.
>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00450.html

Thanks for sharing this!  It looks very compelling.

-- 
Chris

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