archive-changelog.rst



Software Heritage --- Archive ChangeLog
Below you can find a time-indexed list of notable events and changes to
archival policies in the Software Heritage Archive. Each of them might have
(had) an impact on how content is archived and explain apparent statistical
anomalies or other changes in archival behavior over time. They are collected
in this document for historical reasons.

2021


2021-08-03 Completed first archival of SourceForge Mercurial repositories; regular
crawling for those repositories enabled (tracking: T3374)

2021-07-22 Completed first archival of SourceForge Git and Subversion
repositories; regular crawling for those repositories enabled (tracking:
T3374)


2020


2020-10-06 - 2020-11-23: source code crawlers have been paused to avoid
an out of disk condition, due to an unexpected delay in the arrival of new
storage hardware. Push archival (both deposit and save code now) remained
in operation. (tracking: T2656)

2020-09-15: completed first archival of, and added to regular crawling
GNU Guix System (tracking: T2594)

2020-06-11: completed integration with the IPOL journal, allowing paper
authors to explicitly deposit source code to the archive (announcement)

2020-05-25: completed first archival of, and added to regular crawling
NixOS (tracking: T2411)


2019


2019-09-10: completed first archival of Bitbucket Git repositories and
added Bitbucket as a regularly crawled forge (tracking: T592)

2019-06-30: completed first archival of, and added to regular crawling,
several GitLab instances: 0xacab.org, framagit.org, gite.lirmm.fr,
gitlab.common-lisp.net,
gitlab.freedesktop.org, gitlab.gnome.org, gitlab.inria.fr,
salsa.debian.org


2019-06-12: completed first archival of CRAN packages and added CRAN as
a regularly crawled package repository (tracking: T1709)

2019-06-11: completed a full archival of GNU source code releases from
ftp.gnu.org, and added it to regular crawling (tracking: T1722)

2019-05-27: completed a full archival of NPM packages and added it as a
regularly crawled package repository (tracking: T1378)

2019-01-10: enabled the save code now service, allowing users to
explicitly request archival of a specific source code repository
(announcement)


2018


2018-10-10: completed first archival of PyPI packages and added PyPI as
a regularly crawled package repository (announcement)

2018-09-25: completed integration with HAL, allowing paper authors to
explicitly deposit source code to the archive (announcement)

2018-08-31: completed first archival of public GitLab repositories from
gitlab.com and added it as a regularly crawled forge
(tracking: T1111)

2018-03-21: completed archival of Google Code Mercurial repositories.
(tracking: T682)

2018-02-20: completed archival of Debian packages and added Debian as a
regularly crawled distribution (announcement)


2017


2017-10-02: completed archival of Google Code Subversion repositories
(tracking: T617)

2017-06-06: completed archival of Google Code Git repositories
(tracking: T673)


2016


2016-04-04: completed archival of the Gitorious (tracking: T312)


2015


2015-11-06: archived all GNU source code releases from ftp.gnu.org
(tracking: T90)

2015-07-28: started archiving public GitHub repositories