[TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Clem Cole]

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I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested in
the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their archives
and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).

https://www.softwareheritage.org/

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Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Al Kossow]

On 6/8/20 6:10 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
> I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested in the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their 
> archives and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).
> 
> https://www.softwareheritage.org/

Don't diss them too badly. They are good folks,
especially with how they are dealing with archiving and deduping almost-identical
source trees.

They stop by CHM every few years.

Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[David Barto]

As a quick look, I entered ‘unix’ to the search bar. 8^)

In the list was a UNIX_V6PP. A quick browse it looked like a (not very good IMO) c++ rewrite of the v6 kernel for the x86 processor.

	David

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/lonway/UNIX_V6PP&path=UNIX_V6%2B%2B

> On Jun 8, 2020, at 7:44 AM, Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/20 6:10 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
>> I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested in the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their archives and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).
>> https://www.softwareheritage.org/
> 
> Don't diss them too badly. They are good folks,
> especially with how they are dealing with archiving and deduping almost-identical
> source trees.
> 
> They stop by CHM every few years.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Clem Cole]

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Al, I'm not diss them or their efforts, just I wanted to know who they
were.
This is the first I had heard of them,  I am, however, dissing the web site
which I could not figure out how to use.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:51 AM Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> wrote:

> On 6/8/20 6:10 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
> > I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested
> in the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their
> > archives and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).
> >
> > https://www.softwareheritage.org/
>
> Don't diss them too badly. They are good folks,
> especially with how they are dealing with archiving and deduping
> almost-identical
> source trees.
>
> They stop by CHM every few years.
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 06/08/20 11:14, Clem Cole wrote:
> Al, I'm not diss them or their efforts, just I wanted to know who they 
> were.
> This is the first I had heard of them,  I am, however, dissing the web 
> site which I could not figure out how to use.
I have surfed there over the years but I have always found their UI 
nothing short of terrible. They have archived over 126 million projects 
but my search queries return little and their browsing i/f seems 
non-existant.

N.

Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Clem Cole wrote:
> I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested
> in the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their
> archives and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).

They seem to have scraped GitHub, so they backed up everything I put
there.  Thanks guys.

Re: [TUHS] UNESCO's Software Heritage Foundation

[Al Kossow]

On 6/8/20 9:06 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Clem Cole wrote:
>> I'm seeding this URL to TUHS as one would expect them to be interested
>> in the work from Warren and friends. FWIW: I tried to browse their
>> archives and was not impressed (I couldn't find anything).
> 
> They seem to have scraped GitHub, so they backed up everything I put
> there.  Thanks guys.
> 

They are trying to archive and de-dup EVERYTHING that is open-source.

Unix is more difficult, because of the encumbrances.


https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/06/06/announcing-the-software-heritage-graph-dataset/