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August 07, 2023

Sourceware 25 Roadmap. Please participate and let us know what more we (and you!) can do to make Sourceware and all hosted projects a success for the next 25 years.

July 21, 2023

Working on individual tech sovereignty together. Valgrind was picked for a FUTO microgrant, which has been donated to Sourceware through the Software Freedom Conservancy for maintaining and expanding the infrastructure for Valgrind and other Free Software core toolchain and developer tool projects.

If you also want to help Sourceware please become a Conservancy Sustainer or donate directly by mentioning Sourceware as comment or on the memo line.

July 11, 2023

HTML email. Public-inbox doesn't handle HTML so inbox.sourceware.org was incomplete (since most sourceware mailinglists do accept HTML email). We now have a filter that removes redundant HTML parts, if there is at least a text/plain alternative, before storing in public-inbox. And we re-imported missing emails to make the archives complete.

But please don't sent HTML email. It will make DKIM verification of your email impossible.

June 29, 2023

Sourceware source code integrity. gitsigur for protecting git repo integrity. With comparisons, developer workflow examples and composition possibilities for gitsigur, b4 and sigstore.

June 05, 2023

Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q2 2023. dwarfstd.org joins Sourceware. snapshots.sourceware.org. Simpler b4 setup. Sourceware joins Software Freedom Conservancy. Sourceware joins the fediverse. Mirrors and Software Heritage. Overseers Open Office hours.

May 15, 2023

Sourceware joins Software Freedom Conservancy!

See the news and announcements page for other new (or formerly new) things.

Announcements, notices about downtime and temporary issues with our network are also posted to the fediverse @sourceware@fosstodon.org

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I can't access the ftp site. Mirrors?

There are several sites which mirror the free software ftp site. You can see the full list on the free software mirrors list page.

What is your true name?

sourceware.org. But I am also called cygwin.org, dwarfstd.org, elfutils.org, gcc.gnu.org and valgrind.org. During the dot-com boom years I was called sources.redhat.com and sourceware.cygnus.com.

How are the projects chosen? Can I host my free software project there?

Currently, we are pleased to be able to provide a home for various core toolchain and development tool offerings and certain GNU Project packages such as GCC, GDB, glibc, Binutils, and others. However, we currently only have the capacity to host a limited number of projects.
So, while it doesn't hurt to ask if your project can be hosted here, we do have to be selective in what we offer.
With luck, this will change soon, as we are contemplating increasing the capacity of both the sourceware.org system and the internet connection that it uses to communicate with the outside world.

I need an account on sourceware for git/svn/cvs write access to project XYZ?

We have an XYZ Project? Cool!
Ok, you need write access for a project hosted on Sourceware you say? Well, first you'll need to have your request approved by the project maintainer(s). Once they give their ok, you can use our handy dandy little form and we'll process your request. This will provide you with an account on sourceware.org. If, in the future, you want to contribute to the repository of another project (remember that sourceware.org, cygwin.com and gcc.gnu.org share projects), have a responsible party send email to the admin-requests mailing list at this site requesting that you be added to the project. Do not fill this form out again.

Do you have a privacy statement for this site?

Hey, why not.
We're not recording anything about you, short of the normal web logs which show what pages are being downloaded by what host. We'd never use any of the mailing list subscription information for anything other than the normal distribution of e-mail to that list.

We are not out to get you.

Oh, from time to time we do generate some aggregate reports but those don't identify you individually, so stop worrying.

A lot of the software here is compressed in the .bz2 format. What is that?

bzip2 (".bz2") is a compression program similar to gzip (".gz"), but it produces much smaller files than gzip. You can get the source for bzip2, or pre-built binaries for most platforms, from the bzip2 home page. Most recent free software distributions include bzip2, so you may already have it on your system.

Is it true that the first lunar landing was faked?

Of course. Everyone knows that. See the PBS documentary about it, Capricorn One.

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