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+.. _archive-journal:
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+Software Heritage --- Notable Archive Changes
+=============================================
+
+Below you can find a time-indexed list of notable events and changes to
+archival policies in the Software Heritage Archive. Each of them might have
+(had) an impact on how content is archived and explain apparent anomalies or
+other changes in archival behaviour over time. They are collected in this
+document for historical reasons.
+
+
+2020
+----
+
+* **2020-10-06 - current:** automatic crawling of source code has been paused
+  to avoid an out of disk condition, due to unexpected delay in the arrival of
+  new storage hardware. "Push" archival (deposit and "save code now") remains
+  in operation.
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    Dependencies among top-level Python modules (click to zoom).
 
 
+Archive
+-------
+
+* :ref:`Notable archive changes <archive-journal>` over time
+
+
 Indices and tables
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