From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giovanni Biscuolo Subject: Re: Software Heritage & Guix Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:17:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87h8bfh58q.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> References: <87wokh8y4p.fsf@gnu.org> <871s2n0zxn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBb6K-0003ja-Ql for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:18:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBb6J-0007Rl-Rf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:18:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: mikadoZero , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Guix! mikadoZero writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> ...=20 >> Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer >> networks: I disagree here: P2P/decentralized archival is a _resilient_ archival method and is _not_ in contrast with long-term: a group of users (including institutions at various levels) can decide that some or all of a "decentralized Software Heritage" archive deserves availability guarantees :-) [...] > There is a relevant section in their documentation on pinning services > which seems to address this directly: > > https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/pinning > > So maybe peer to peer data storage networks can do long-term archival. so maybe Software Heritage could have a decentralized storage model instead of a centralized one... but this have direct implications on what content swh can store (I mean non-free sofware) anyway decentralized storage (IPFS/gnu:net)is already in Guix radar, could be in swh radar too :-) "decentralized software heritage" could even be an interesting application on top secushare :-O thanks! Gio =2D-=20 Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEERcxjuFJYydVfNLI5030Op87MORIFAlykbDUACgkQ030Op87M ORLxRw//YnGVirhqJ8nW4Xm9MYgXnotsV55aUVVa8upYnL8aKo2dO5e6KaafRnq8 Cif7PPAESANqNNbq5tQihbQkixkLzVbNFuIMMsOdcNzi7t5vpX8iGlWFVwO+RWlK 3K44zZ+WBcj87rvMTOW4tQNLr1G7+f13lMKuv/21AzuZbtU7KJ1yQNYhUxfhuWe8 BSYyZMp/iHwlt8uu0ZtIoLm8vLkDizOYlf/xMCwBAkFigxx6fETtFYBT5TODwMzO +Bk7z6GoJrWsJxJFnI/wd5EWF490MzsjOvX5n0xLkWTMsoQJRRDMn6XBQcbJuU9d lnLQY1WmE6ZI1JDdoUh/z/iKHwk/vO5G6A4ynpgsh0oRFwzGkABIeB6ARSDmonRi e3KiMHy2YTN2FvNjsUioEnU45jMStBO4m9ytfZKi7DpIEPqrHHta2WwG2zUMV+NE eyqUM94ZtMHrusPw1Mn3PevBWsZsvOvXvbg65ba5eV4GB/XyTgMT4h+gzxE0SJ+5 uo54n/Jv2XQTMbwY0mni5vvpcBja/4UFVkhq98eoLcbAI2yVmDttL8AuAhCAznqk VRhhymirqA30v5erXmKPJoSW34v3TDXziucbla5+cPJtYK2eVtsHZtdPbxJXkXH3 iA3j5bb/8d5RvbIbc9mFofmt0Z9B8XHhLP/43cD27iRF+3ZFTZw= =J8rh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--