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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Do You Archive GitHub Projects?

How frequently do you archive the data, how many nodes do you have? Well, if some of our listeners here are schoolers, if you go to docs.sortreggio.org and one of the first links in there brings you to a nice web page that describes all the old architecture. So what we do is we regularly code these places. We do not archive all those old GitHub as soon as you make a commit. But then this is a regular way. Then the other solution that we have put in place is a mechanism that is called save code now. And then the third possibility is having an agreement with some organizational institution or companies that actually won't regularly archive their software

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