Opening the doors of the Software Heritage archive
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of our societies. The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve,…
We’re hiring: back-end developer
Our archive keeps growing, … and our team is following! We’re now hiring a back-end developer, full-time, to grow our Paris-based team. The person who will fill the position will…
Donate to Software Heritage!
[ TL;DR: you can now donate to support our work! ] Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our scientific, technical and organisational knowledge, to…
Towards a ClearlyDefined Software Heritage
Here at Software Heritage, we are taking over the mission of collecting, preserving, and sharing the source code of all the software available. This is a complex task, that involves…
Listing and loading of Debian repositories: now live
Software Heritage now archives all source packages of Debian as well as its security archive daily. Everything is ready for archival of other Debian derivatives as well. Keep on reading…
Getting up to speed, clear sky ahead
One year has passed after we posted our first activity report, and it is now a good time to look at what was accomplished in 2017, and give some perspective…
Software Heritage: a white paper
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…
Raising awareness for Software Source Code preservation and access
Today, at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, a formal partnership agreement has been signed between Unesco and Inria to establish a framework for collaboration on preserving the knowledge embedded in software source…
List the content of your favorite forge in just a few steps
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…
Opening the archive, one API (and one FOSDEM) at a time
Today we open our public API, allowing to programmatically browse the Software Heritage archive. As we are posting this, Roberto and Stefano are keynoting at FOSDEM 2017, to discuss the role Software…