GitHub on the implementation of the project to create open source hosted in the arctic repository capable of surviving in the event of a global catastrophe. 186 tape drives , which contain photographs of information and allow information to be stored for more than 1000 years (according to other sources, the service life is 500 years), have been successfully placed in an underground storage on the island of Svalbard. The repository was created from an abandoned coal mine 150 meters deep, sufficient to ensure the safety of information even in the event of the use of nuclear or weapons.
The archive contains about 21 TB of information representing the code of many open projects hosted on GitHub. Developers whose code was included in the archive are marked in their GitHub profile with a special label "Arctic Code Vault Contributor". In case of problems with the Arctic World Archive storage, the possibility of creating duplicate long-term storage archives is being considered.
Microsoft plans to develop the initiative to create a more global archive of information covering a common slice of knowledge accumulated by the computer industry, including books, documentation, information about software development, programming languages, electronics, microprocessors and computing, as well as information about the history of technology development. and cultural aspects. The aim of the initiative is to provide comprehensive information that can help researchers from the future recreate current technologies and better understand the modern world.
In parallel, several alternative projects are being developed to create archives with code. As an experimental project the content of 6000 of the most popular GitHub repositories is stored in long-term storage drives based on quartz glass plates. Data is stored by physically changing the properties of the material, which is not affected by electromagnetic radiation, water and heat, which makes it possible to achieve a retention time of tens of thousands of years.
The Β» saved in his archive a snapshot of public repositories from GitHub as of April 13th. A total of about information about repositories, including comments, issue, and other metadata. In the future, the creators of Internet Archive intend to provide the ability to extract project code from the archive using the βgit cloneβ command (an analogue of the service is being developed for code).
Organization , established by the National Research Institute of France (Inria) with the support of UNESCO, has set itself the goal of accumulating and preserving the original texts. Currently already has 130 million projects and includes the full history of their development. 100 million of these projects are imported from GitHub. Anyone can request that their code be archived on the site , specifying a link to a Git, Mercurial, or Subversion repository. Available searching, navigating through code, and downloading archived projects.
Source: opennet.ru