SWH package manager Data Ingestion
Add Package managers to Software Heritage
Software Heritage's ambition is to collect, preserve, and share all software that is publicly available in source code form. In this project we improve the SWH scanner tool which compares any set of files with the SWH archive. This is very useful for detecting license violations or security issues. The goal of the project is to take the scanner from a research prototype to a widely available and usable tool. This involves work around its packaging, user interface, robustness and performance. We will be re-purposing the advanced graph-comparison algorithm from the Mercurial DVCS to minimize the load to the SWH archive. We will also expand the list of existing source code origins we will create new listers and loaders for Maven, Go, Packagist, RubyGems, Bower, CPAN and pub.dev/Dart package managers.
- The project's own website: https://www.softwareheritage.org/
Run by Octobus
This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322.
