Google Summer of Code 2019/Increase archive coverage

• Title: Increase archive coverage
• Description: As Software Heritage works on archiving and sharing source code, one of the major tasks is to ingest the latest source code available in the database from time to time and from all the possible sources where you can fetch the source code using listers and ingest them using loaders. Listers are components that crawl the APIs of software forges (e.g., Bitbucket, Gitorious, Sourceforge, ...) and return a list of the software available in it whereas Loaders take a bundle of software (tarball, Git repository ...) and load it into Software Heritage, by adapting it so that it matches the archive data model. The goal of this project is to increase the archive coverage by making listers and loaders for different websites that which stores source code, so that Software Heritage can fetch as much source code as possible and store it in the database to preserve it for future generations.
• Student: Archit Agrawal
  • Forge activity
• Mentors:
  • Nicolas Dandrimont
  • Antoine R. Dumont
• Activity reports:
• May 2019
  • Week 20 Second Week(Community Bonding)
  • Week 21 Third Week(Community Bonding)
  • Week 22 First Week(Coding)
• June 2019
  • Week 23 Second Week(Coding)
  • Week 24 Third Week(Coding)
  • Week 25 Fourth Week(Coding)

Links

• Lister source code repository
• see project on the GSoC portal