Stefano Zacchiroli
(Università Paris-VII)
Mercoledì 24 maggio 2017, ore 13.00 – 14.00
Centro Nexa su Internet & Società
Politecnico di Torino, via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano)
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The Software Commons is the vast body of human knowledge embedded in software source code, that is publicly available and can be freely altered and reused. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes the bulk of it. Sadly we seem to be at increasing risk of losing this precious heritage built by the FOSS community over the paste decades: code hosting sites shut down when their popularity decreases, tapes of ancient versions of our toolchain (bit-)rot in
basements, etc.
The ambitious goal of the Software Heritage project is to contribute to address this risk, by collecting, preserving, and sharing *all* publicly available software in source code form. Together with its complete development history, as captured by state-of-the art version control systems.
Although still in Beta, Software Heritage has already archived more than 3 billion unique source code files and 700 million unique commits, spanning more than 50 million software development projects from major code hosting sites, distributions, and upstream software collections.
Biografia
Stefano Zacchiroli is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot on leave at Inria. His research interests span formal methods, software preservation, and Free/Open Source Software engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row over the period 2010-2013. He is a former director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O’Reilly Open Source Award.
Letture consigliate e link utili
- Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli, Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code.
- Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina Schement, Information Commons, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 42, 1 (2008),
546-591. - Vinton G Cerf, Avoiding “Bit Rot”: Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information [Point of View], Proc. IEEE 99, 6 (2011), 915-916.
- Collberg, Christian, et al., Measuring reproducibility in computer systems research, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tech. Rep (2014).