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* Making it happen
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: main
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** Status: scope :noexport:
Software heritage is an /infrastructure/ that needs to ensure
*** Availability
of the source code, in the long term
*** Traceability
of all the contents
*** Uniformity
of access to all the sources, irrespective of their origin
** Status: technical
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: numbers
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*** Our sources
- Debian -- all of it, daily snapshots since 2005
- Github -- public repositories, as of August 2015
- Gnu.org -- all of it, as of August 2015
*** Some numbers
- 14 million repositories
- 400 million commits (real or synthetic)
- 1.9 billions unique source files
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** What's special
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: datamodel
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*** /Uniform/ data model
- superset of /git/ : ambition to /cover all VCS/
- contents, directories, revisions, releases, origins, ...
*** Massive /deduplication/ :ATTACH:
:PROPERTIES:
:Attachments: gpl2-names
:ID: e0f8d015-9679-46de-a24d-92514a340975
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- the biggest git-like graph in the world right now
+ did you know? the original GPLv2 licence
* appears with more than 500 different file names
* including /aa.css.txt/ and /FullSync.txt/ :-)
*** /Provenance/ tracking
- know /where/ we found /what/, /when/
- essential for /traceability/
** Status: institutional
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*** Inria as initiator
French national institute for research in Computer Science.
- Contributed to the birth of W3C
- 4500 people, many prestigious scientists
- In the news: Freak and Logjam TLS vulnerabilities
Inria is /fully supporting/ the bootstrap phase of Software Heritage.
** Bits from the roadmap
*** Our ambition: going global
\hfill an /open, sustainable, multistakeholder, nonprofit/ organisation
# - organising the technological development
# - coordinating a network of peers
# - structuring the collaboration
*** The road ahead: policy
- public announcement, with the first cofounders and partners
- first working groups, open process for collaboration
- connections with research, industry and educational users
*** The road ahead: technical
- distributed infrastructure
- advanced search, track, explore APIs that scale to tens of billion files / Tera SLOCs

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