l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > 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. > > Ludo’. > > ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00450.html
Thanks for sharing this! It looks very compelling. -- Chris
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