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…
Visiting Chile to spread our vision
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 have come a long way, and the road ahead
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…
Software Heritage wins best community project award at POSS 2016
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….