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….
Listing 47+ million repositories: refactoring our GitHub lister
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…
Google Code content now safely collected
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…
Gitorious content is safe thanks to the Archive Team
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…
Releasing our own source code, Free as in Freedom
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…
Our first press release
Journalists from major press outlets and medias gathered this morning at Inria’s offices in Paris to attend the public announcement of the Software Heritage project, which we have just unveiled. We are thrilled…
Software Heritage is now open, please come in!
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…