Post #1759519
2026-04-28 21:16 UTC
Replies (8)
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@olasd@mastodon.opportunis.me 2026-04-28 21:20
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh hi! I've got some good news about your last paragraph: "some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software." is something we've been building over the past 10 years at Software Heritage : https://www.softwareheritage.org/ @swheritage
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@nicoe@mamot.fr 2026-04-28 21:46
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh I think there is the software heritage project that is kind of the archive you're longing for
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@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 22:31
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh Huh! Sourceforge....Freashmeat....ibiblio was good enough for us ....
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@graves501@fosstodon.org 2026-04-28 22:44
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh Thanks for still posting on Mastodon, even though you barely use Mastodon as a platform anymore. Do you happen to go to meetups in Vienna these days? The people at Sentry are pretty chill, but I know you're not working there anymore :)
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@samfirke@a2mi.social 2026-04-29 00:58
@mitsuhiko good food for thought. Also I think I will try out Pi, looks great!
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@boramalper@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 07:28
@mitsuhiko Thanks for writing, it was a good read! > I definitely cringed when Zig moved to Codeberg! Why though? If anything Codeberg’s legal structure (being a non-profit) and vision makes it a lot more aligned with the objectives of free and open source projects than GitHub in the long run (which has always been the case but it’s just abundantly clearer today). I think “for-profit corporations providing high quality public services for free” was a ZIRP and never sustainable.
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@fresseng@universites.social 2026-04-29 07:33
@mitsuhiko "We Need an Archive As much as I like the idea of things fading out of existence, we absolutely need libraries and archives. Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software. Something with the power of an endowment or public funding to keep it afloat." Well, I guess @swheritage is that archive. @mitchellh
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@cnx@awkward.place 2026-04-29 09:00
Regarding archival, @mitsuhiko, check @swheritage out!