21 May
2015
21 May
'15
7:42 a.m.
On 05/18/2015 04:07 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.
This work is AMAZING! I've been collecting UNIX source code and
documents since the mid '90's. I have accumulated more that 20 gig of
stuff ( including goodies like the NCD contributed CD they use to
distribute with their X-tubes and one release of the Prime Time Freeware
for UNIX ), and papers as PDF files I've found here and there ( like
dmr's web page ).
But, my stuff is just a pile of barely organized sub-directories under
~/unix on my main Linux system. This work however ... is very well done.
Of course, I've snarked your paper and poster pdf's and am cloning the
repository as I type this for my collection ( I only have the BSD stuff
that's in the Archive ).
Congrats on the award. It's well deserved! And thanks for doing this!
I was wondering if you were planning on adding any of the Solaris stuff
( I managed to get one source release of open Solaris before Oracle
bought out sun ) or Darwin? Unfortunately, I don't seem to have the
Darwin source anymore ( some bits of my collection have been lost to
time ), but I can contribute what I have of Open Solaris if you want it.
--
-- Derrik
Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
dwalker(a)doomd.net
"Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak