From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Software Heritage
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:13:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1mxwwj2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twgao0cz.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:03:40 +0200")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-01 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-30 21:03 Software Heritage Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-01 9:13 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-07-10 20:39 ` Chris Marusich
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