Pursuing our mission to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software ever written, 2019 was a year of great achievements for Software Heritage. Today is a good time to look back and talk about what has been accomplished in 2019 since our last activity report, and give […]
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code. With more than 6.4 billion source files from more than 91 million projects, including Debian, GitHub, GitLab, Gitorious, GoogleCode, GNU, Python Package Index and more, the Software Heritage archive has the unique ability […]
Software Heritage archives, collects, preserves and makes accessible the source code of all publicly available software in the world, building a modern Library of Alexandria of software source code. Unlike the original Library of Alexandria, whose contents were lost in a fire, Software Heritage has a long term strategy to […]
To continue Software Heritage’s project success, we are recruiting a postdoc researcher profile to empower our Paris-based team. The postdoc’s topic is to work on large-scale, big data graph analysis for the purpose of tracking the provenance of software source code artifacts, such as source code files and commits, as […]
Le Plan national pour la science ouverte, lancé le 4 juillet 2018 par la ministre de l’enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l’innovation, a décidé d’un soutien à Software Heritage, initiative considérée comme un pilier de la science ouverte. Au-delà des publications et des données de la recherche, l’ouverture […]
Le code source des logiciels constitue un savoir unique de l’histoire récente de l’humanité. Il est dès lors crucial de s’engager collectivement afin que les connaissances intégrées dans le code source des logiciels soient préservées, valorisées et partagées avec tous. Cette idée est au cœur de la coopération entre l’UNESCO […]
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code, and we have already assembled the largest existing public archive of software source code, spanning tens of millions of software projects. The archive is composed of all the individual source code files, and […]
Software Heritage’s team is delighted to welcome Thibault Allançon, Kalpit Kothari and Archit Agrawal as interns for Google Summer of Code 2019! Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on giving more student developers access to open source software development. During the (northern hemisphere) Summer break, students work […]
Our mission is to collect, preserve, and share the source code of all software that is publicly available, including its full development history. To this end, we already periodically fetch and archive source code from a growing set of origins: release tarballs from the GNU servers, repositories from GitHub, packages […]
We are excited to announce that Software Heritage has been chosen as one of Google Summer of Code 2019 participating organization. Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. During their Summer break, students work with an open source […]
