We unveiled the Software Heritage initiative exactly six month ago, on June 30th, 2016. Now it seems a good time to look back at the origin of the project, where we started, what we have accomplished up to now, and get a glimpse of the future. A (not so long) time ago… The first informal discussions […]
This past week, the 2016 edition of the Paris Open Source Summit (aka POSS 2016) attracted more than 7’000 participants, ranging from industries to start-ups, from developer communities to researchers. It was a great networking occasion, and all the Software Heritage team was present at the Inria booth. All the team attended the opening social event […]
You might have noticed a “slight” bump in the amount of projects referenced on our archive page over the last few days. Did we suddenly uncover a treasure trove of new repositories? Well, not yet… This bump comes from a change in our process that is a stepping stone towards a more distributed Software Heritage. […]
A significant amount of publicly available source code is hosted on a variety of free hosting services, some of which are being phased out for various reasons. Salvaging this code before it’s too late is one of the reasons why Software Heritage was born in the first place. As such, we are actively working to collect and […]
When we started Software Heritage we did not expect that publicly available source code was going to be endangered so quickly. Among other major source code hosters, Gitorious was already being taken down in mid 2015, before our initial infrastructure was ready! Luckily fellow hackers of the Archive Team were already working full speed, and they managed to […]
Today we release all of our own source code as Free/Open Source Software. As we’re posting this, our fellow engineer Nicolas “olasd” Dandrimont is addressing the DebConf16 attendees with the first technical talk about Software Heritage since we went public. You can find more information about the talk on the event page as well as watch it live. To accompany […]
Source code is special: it’s executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. Software Heritage is an ambitious initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving and sharing all the source code publicly available in the world. We decided to undertake this ambitious task because software is our heritage, because software is essential for […]