The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary".
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@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/
@olasd @mitchellh @swheritage this is lovely!
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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh I think there is the software heritage project that is kind of the archive you're longing for
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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
Huh! Sourceforge....Freashmeat....ibiblio was good enough for us ....
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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
@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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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
@mitsuhiko good food for thought. Also I think I will try out Pi, looks great!
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@mitsuhiko good food for thought. Also I think I will try out Pi, looks great!
@mitsuhiko I'm enjoying pi.dev! Good stuff.
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@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
@graves501 @mitchellh I sometimes go! I'm not the most meetup seeking person though
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@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/
@mitsuhiko @mitchellh after reading your blogpost I wanted to suggest to have a look at @swheritage. great that @olasd already mentioned it. It's a great project and you can easily archive #git repos.
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@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/
@olasd @mitsuhiko @mitchellh @swheritage Such a nice feeling to see my projects already archived with you. I never knew. Thank you!
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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
@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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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
@mitsuhiko
"We Need an ArchiveAs 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.
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The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
Regarding archival, @mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io, check @swheritage@mstdn.social out!
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@mitsuhiko @mitchellh after reading your blogpost I wanted to suggest to have a look at @swheritage. great that @olasd already mentioned it. It's a great project and you can easily archive #git repos.
@scollovati @mitsuhiko @swheritage I too opened the reply thread to mention https://www.softwareheritage.org/ and not only found it had already been mentioned multiple times, but also that the project had a Mastodon account
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