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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…