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Software Heritage --- Notable Archive Changes
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 anomalies or
other changes in archival behaviour over time. They are collected in this
document for historical reasons.
WARNING: this document is work in progress and not considered complete
yet. Progress tracking is in [T2793](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T2793).

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](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T2656))


2018


2018-03-21: completed import of [Google
Code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code) Mercurial repositories
(tracking: [T682](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T682))


2017


2017-10-02: completed import of [Google
Code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code) Subversion repositories
(tracking: [T617](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T617))

2017-06-06: completed import of [Google
Code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code) Git repositories (tracking:
[T673](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T673))


2016


2016-04-04: completed import of the
[Gitorious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious) (tracking:
[T312](https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T312))


2015


2015-07-28: started archiving public [GitHub](https://github.com/)
repositories