Software Heritage

Software Heritage
URL	https://www.softwareheritage.org/
Status	Online!
Archiving status	one mirror at ENEA
Archiving type	mirrorable
IRC channel	[ #swh] (on Libera.Chat)

Software Heritage is a European-funded effort to archive software source code of all kinds, including all the versions thereof. It offers instant saving of individual repos, slightly delayed saving of bulk amounts of repos (restricted to privileged users) and regularly saving all repos on a forge. The archive is publicly available and the LWN article "Preserving the global software heritage" gives more details.

Other software archives include:

• Codearchiver
• GitHub
• https://snapshot.debian.org/ (archive of all Debian history including binaries and source code)
• https://archive.org/details/software (focuses on binaries and the most ephemeral software; open submission)
• http://openhub.net/ (focused on analysis; open submission)

Live interaction methods

Software Heritage members are on Matrix, but those wishing to use IRC can do so by connecting to Libera.Chat as these IRC channels are bridged to Matrix,

Channel name	Channel hashtag	Channel description
Software Heritage	#swh (on Libera.Chat) (ircs:)	Software Heritage - The Great Library of Source Code - https://www.softwareheritage.org - Community discussion channel, try #swh-devel for development discussions
-devel	#swh-devel (on Libera.Chat) (ircs:)	"Development of www.softwareheritage.org , more info: http://deb.li/swhdev | Try #swh for user discussions | Voices are SWH staffers | Digital objects last forever – or 5 years, whichever comes first http://xkcd.com/1683/"
-offtopic	#swh-offtopic (on Libera.Chat) (ircs:)	Off-topic chit-chat for www.softwareheritage.org
-sysadm	#swh-sysadm (on Libera.Chat) (ircs:)	www.softwareheritage.org | sysadm channel, you can also head to #swh-devel for development discussions | weekly meeting at https://meet.jit.si/LargeFrustrationsFourSWHSysadm