I am not sure that we are good at archiving. Example with Subversion links
in the bug tracker:

https://bugs.python.org/issue2001#msg123254

"Added the missing CSS file in r86971."

The revision link is:
https://hg.python.org/lookup/r86971

Which redirects to the following HTTP 404 (not found) error:
http://svn.python.org/view?view=revision&revision=86971

We have a mapping of Subversion commits to... Mercurial commits, but the
Mercurial server doesn't use it.

Then bugs will migrate to GitHub. I already expect that we will loose some
data in the long term...

I commonly have to dig into Python history to understand the rationale of a
change made 10 years ago, if not 15 or 20 years ago. It is becoming more
and more painful at each migration...

Victor

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