
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
Pull Request Checklist
Helpful things
Fixes
Fixes classloader memory leak, due to
ClassTag
Purpose
Launches scripted tests with a limited metaspace size. With this change most of the tests fail. After analyzing the heap dump in yourkit profiler, one can see that
ClassTag#cache
is not allowing the classloaders created by play to be GCd.The fix is to separate the classloader that loads ClassTag from the classloaders that load the rest of the application classes (libraries and user code), and then the classloaders can be GCd.
I also opened a PR in scala (scala/scala#9276), but I also managed to fix it in play-plugin. As you can see in that PR discussion this is not a problem in scala 2.13, but the scripted tests only run with scala 2.12
References
#9935
scala/scala#9276