Everything you need to know about #SoftwareHeritage and why long-term preservation of source code matters is in @zacchiro interview here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8kBztTivNw

cc @swheritage

Reading post: « Git mirror and #Nix flakes – a practical approach to supply chain security »

🤔 I’m not convinced that mirroring is “the Right Thing” here; it sounds to me as some “worse and holed is maybe better”.

Instead of mirrors for tackling the upstream troubles, it seems more elegant to have an archive that collects all the public code and then fallback to it when needed.

Guess what? #Guix does that using #SoftwareHeritage!

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/05/21/software-heritage-guix-deployment

https://blog.networld.to/git-mirrors-and-nix-flakes-a-practical-approach-to-supply-chain-security/

I wish people from #Codeberg and #Zenodo would collaborate to get the same clever integration features that allow people to preserve #GitHub releases at Zenodo. I bet people from the scientific community would like that. Is it too much to wish some big sciency inftrastructure group would fund this? ;-)

I'm going to archive stuff at Zenodo as I move out of GitHub.

Update - Tip from Ale Abdo: let's use #SoftwareHeritage !

#hopeful #FLOSS

RE: https://mstdn.social/@swheritage/116262543895709726

A very interesting exhibition! Using only a few examples, source code is celebrated not as a means to produce, but also as a means to create, and/or convey messages.
Perhaps my favourite panel is the one showcasing #wenyan. There is a specific mention that source code carries a lot of cultural elements and preconceptions, and in itself is biased, i.e., mostly written by white men. So, I'm glad that fundamentally different programming languages are mentioned.

#softwareheritage #citedessciences #programming

EDIT: I failed to mention the exhibition is available online https://www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org/

📣 Hey, do you know that now #SoftwareHeritage implements SWHEP?

SWHEP: SoftWare Heritage Enhancement Proposals

Please checkout the two accepted first ones:

• Switching from ORC to Parquet for graph exports
• Paving the way for more versatile object storages by turning shards into mosaic

🤔 Still puzzled where are numbers 0002 and 0003. 🙃

https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/swh/swhep/-/blob/dd2bddd99b6a8912c1ad21f7723480541356dc9d/swheps/0001.md
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https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/swh/swhep/-/blob/dd2bddd99b6a8912c1ad21f7723480541356dc9d/swheps/0004.md
https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/swh/swhep/-/blob/dd2bddd99b6a8912c1ad21f7723480541356dc9d/swheps/0005.md

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) will be ending their activities in about a year. Thankfully, they will be taking the time to make sure the work done will not be lost.
Over the years, SPN has done great work to advance knowledge and capabilities towards software preservation. 💜
Still, it always comes backs to sustainability.

#digipres #softwarePreservation #softwareHeritage

https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/thoughtful-sunset-for-the-software-preservation-network/