The initial flurry of activities related to unveiling the project, getting it up and running at a technical level, and networking with all our initial partners and allies didn’t leave us much « calm time » to sit down and write about it for the broader digital preservation community. We are happy to report that earlier on in […]
It’s that time of the year again! We are happy to announce that we’re hiring to grow our Paris-based team and further pursue the Software Heritage mission. Specifically, we are now looking for a senior GNU/Linux system administrator to grow our operations team, which is critical to the success of the project. The team is in charge of guaranteeing reliability of […]
Back in November 2016, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote about structural code changes leading to a massive (+15 million!) upswing in the number of repositories archived by Software Heritage through a combination of automatic linkage between the listing and loading scheduler, new understanding of how to deal with extremely large repository hosts like GitHub, and activating a […]
In the second week of january, we were invited to participate to the « Congreso del Futuro« , a remarkable, one of a kind event organised in Santiago de Chile once a year to connect society with all areas of science and knowledge. It was impressive to see people of all kind standing in long queues under […]
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 […]
