From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:53:54 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award In-Reply-To: <555A4699.5060107@aueb.gr> References: <555A4699.5060107@aueb.gr> Message-ID: Diomidis, What a wonderful gift to the community. Thank you. Clem Cole On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > Since early 2013 I've occasionally asked this list for help, and shared > the progress regarding the creation of a Unix Git repository containing > Unix releases from the 1970s until today [1]. > > On Saturday I presented this work [2, 3] at MSR '15: The 12th Working > Conference on Mining Software Repositories, and on Sunday I discussed > the work with the participants over a poster [4] (complete with commits > shown in a teletype (lcase) and a VT-220 font). Amazingly, the work > received the conference's "Best Data Showcase Award", for which I'm > obviously very happy. > > I'd like to thank again the many individuals who contributed to the > effort. Brian W. Kernighan, Doug McIlroy, and Arnold D. Robbins helped > with Bell Labs login identifiers. Clem Cole, Era Eriksson, Mary Ann > Horton, Kirk McKusick, Jeremy C. Reed, Ingo Schwarze, and Anatole Shaw > helped with BSD login identifiers. The BSD SCCS import code is based on > work by H. Merijn Brand and Jonathan Gray. > > A lot of work remains to be done. Given that the build process is > shared as open source code, it is easy to contribute additions and fixes > through GitHub pull requests on the build software repository [5], but > if you feel uncomfortable with that, just send me email. The most useful > community contribution would be to increase the coverage of imported > snapshot files that are attributed to a specific author. Currently, > about 90 thousand files (out of a total of 160 thousand) are getting > assigned an author through a default rule. Similarly, there are about > 250 authors (primarily early FreeBSD ones) for which only the identifier > is known. Both are listed in the build repository's unmatched directory > [6], and contributions are welcomed (start with early editions; I can > propagate from there). Most importantly, more branches of open source > systems can be added, such as NetBSD OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and illumos. > Ideally, current right holders of other important historical Unix > releases, such as System III, System V, NeXTSTEP, and SunOS, will > release their systems under a license that would allow their > incorporation into this repository. If you know people who can help in > this, please nudge them. > > --Diomidis > > [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo > [2] > > http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html > (HTML) > [3] > http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.pdf > (PDF) > [4] > http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/poster.pdf > (105MB) > [5] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make > [6] > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make/tree/master/src/unmatched > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: