Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-01 00:03 +0300) wrote: > Hello! > > The Software Heritage project has just been publicly announced: > > https://www.softwareheritage.org/ > https://www.inria.fr/en/news/news-from-inria/launching-of-software-heritage > > Very roughly it’s a big source code archive. What this means for us is > that we’ll hopefully be able to use it as a content-addressed mirror¹. > Unfortunately, it’s not yet possible to download from the archive; > I guess it will be coming soon. > > Anyway, in light of the various problems with disappearing and/or > compromised commercial software hosting sites (Gitorious…), as well as > problems with sites that do not preserve old archives and/or modify them > in place, just to name a few, I think this is a great initiative.
Woohoo!!! This is really great! -- Alex
