TY - GEN
T1 - Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible Deployment
AU - Courtès, Ludovic
AU - Sample, Timothy
AU - Tournier, Simon
AU - Zacchiroli, Stefano
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2024/6/18
Y1 - 2024/6/18
N2 - The ability to verify research results and to experiment with methodologies are core tenets of science. As research results are increasingly the outcome of computational processes, software plays a central role. GNU Guix is a software deployment tool that supports reproducible software deployment, making it a foundation for computational research workflows. To achieve reproducibility, we must first ensure the source code of software packages Guix deploys remains available. We describe our work connecting Guix with Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, making Guix the first free software distribution and tool backed by a stable archive. Our contribution is twofold: we explain the rationale and present the design and implementation we came up with; second, we report on the archival coverage for package source code with data collected over five years and discuss remaining challenges.
AB - The ability to verify research results and to experiment with methodologies are core tenets of science. As research results are increasingly the outcome of computational processes, software plays a central role. GNU Guix is a software deployment tool that supports reproducible software deployment, making it a foundation for computational research workflows. To achieve reproducibility, we must first ensure the source code of software packages Guix deploys remains available. We describe our work connecting Guix with Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, making Guix the first free software distribution and tool backed by a stable archive. Our contribution is twofold: we explain the rationale and present the design and implementation we came up with; second, we report on the archival coverage for package source code with data collected over five years and discuss remaining challenges.
KW - Guix
KW - Software Heritage
KW - digital preservation
KW - functional package management
KW - replicability
KW - reproducible research
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85200733184
U2 - 10.1145/3641525.3663622
DO - 10.1145/3641525.3663622
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85200733184
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, REP 2024
SP - 36
EP - 45
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, REP 2024
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2nd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, REP 2024
Y2 - 18 June 2024 through 20 June 2024
ER -