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News/Announcements

November 28, 2023

Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q4 2023. 6 months with the Software Freedom Conservancy. Sourceware @ Fosdem. OSUOSL provides extra larger arm64 and x86_64 buildbot servers. No more From rewriting for patches mailinglists.

November 27, 2023

Sourceware thanks Conservancy for their support and urges the community to support Conservancy. Our story.

November 26, 2023

OSUOSL have provided us with another arm64 and x86_64 server. The new servers do the larger gcc and glibc builds so the other builders can do quicker (smaller) CI builds without having to wait on the big jobs.

This also frees up the other container builders to do more automated jobs like the recently added autotools generated files checker for gcc, binutils and gdb. Please contact the builder project if you want to run some automated jobs.

October 7, 2023

Because of dkim, strict dmarc policies and an old mailman setup Sourceware mailinglists used From rewriting. No more! We upgraded mailman, gave up subject prefixes, mail footers, html stripping and reply-to mangling. The current lists that use the new settings are libc-alpha, gcc-patches, libstdc++, jit, fortran, gcc-rust, newlib, elfutils-devel, libabigail and gdb. Please contact overseers if you would like the new setting for any other Sourceware mailinglist.

September 28, 2023

If you enjoyed the GNU Tools Cauldron and like to organize an online virtual mini-BoF followup around some topic or project then the Conservancy BBB server is available for all Sourceware projects.

August 30, 2023

Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q3 2023. Sourceware 25 Roadmap. git source code integrity. inbox.sourceware.org vs HTML email. Continuous glibc src and manual snapshots. Conservancy BBB server for Sourceware projects. Working on individual tech sovereignty together. Sourceware Overseers Open Office hour.

August 28, 2023

glibc is the latest Sourceware project that provides continuous snapshots from current git with both source archives and manuals. This helps to make sure the release process always works and that manuals can be produced in various formats. Thanks to OSUOSL for hosting the snapshots server.

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, coretoolchain.org, dwarfstd.org, elfutils.org, gcc.gnu.org, gnu.toolchain.dev, systemtap.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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