[task #15969] Automatically saving on SoftwareHeritage

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

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  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15969>

                 Summary: Automatically saving on SoftwareHeritage
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Thu 20 May 2021 01:04:08 AM BST
         Should Start On: Thu 20 May 2021 12:00:00 AM BST
   Should be Finished on: Thu 20 May 2021 12:00:00 AM BST
                Category: Software
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

SoftwareHeritage provides an API
<https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/save/doc/> to automatically
trigger a request updating its archived version of a code (without visiting
the webpage).

Within a Maneage'd project, the author will set their top repository URL in
the 'metadata-git-repository' variable of their
'[reproduce/analysis/config/metadata.conf' (for example see the Maneage
paper's metadata.conf
<http://git.maneage.org/paper-concept.git/tree/reproduce/analysis/config/metadata.conf>.

So it is easy to add an option to the high-level './project' script for
requesting an update on SoftwareHeritage when this variable isn't empty, maybe
something like:


./project --save-swh
 

I am a little busy right now, so I won't get to implement it immediately. But
if anyone would like to give it a try, please go ahead. Otherwise we'll
implement it some time in the near future...

Once implemented, public projects (after submission to arXiv) can call it
immediately with a 'git push' like this:


git push && ./project --save-swh


This API was introduced to me by Morane Gruenpeter (Metadata specialist at
SoftwareHeritage). Thanks Morane, this is a great feature ;-)! 




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