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2022-05-10Updated Zenodo DOI for third arXiv releaseHEADmasterMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, the Zenodo identifier for the project was for the second arXiv release (after the first referee reports). However, since the paper has been published, it hasn't been updated on arXiv and its necessary to make a "final" arXiv publication. With this commit, a new Zenodo DOI has been reserved for the third release and is now being used.
2022-05-09Imported recent updates in Maneage, conflicts fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-2010/+3292
Until now, Maneage had undergone some updates. With this commit, those updates have been imported and the conflicts that resulted were fixed. They were all cosmetic and had no effect on the analysis. The most significant one was about the change in the format of 'INPUTS.conf'. In the process, I also noticed that the IEEEtran LaTeX package is now called 'ieeetran' (the 'tlmgr' of TeXLive 2022 was failing).
2022-05-08./project: make clean removes extra tex files in top source directorymaneagePedram Ashofteh Ardakani-0/+6
Until now, the './project make clean' command would only clean (remove) the PDF file from the top source directory. However, if a user would run LaTeX outside of Maneage, many extra latex output such as *.aux, *.log, *.synctex and etc would be produced in the top source directory. These files can interfere with './project make'. With this commit, when './project make clean' is run, any possibly existing LaTeX temporary files will also be deleted from the top source directory. This problem was first reported by Matin Torkian.
2022-04-20Updated Git, Coreutils and Emacs, new script to prepare tarballsPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-8/+192
Until now, one had to follow the instructions from [1] to prepare a standard software tarball before merging with the low-level tarballs-software repository [2]. The script only worked for '.tar.gz' suffix and was only available as a comment on Savannah (in [1]). With this commit, the script has been imported into Maneage as 'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh' to simplify future software updates. It work with all supported '.tar.*' suffixes (of the upstream tarball repository) and will convert the tarballs to Maneage's standard format. Also, this script has a minimal argument parser and can skip the tarballs that are already unpacked, allowing faster tests. This script was used to update the versions of: Coreutiles 9.0 --> 9.1 Git 2.34 --> 2.36 Emacs 27.2 --> 28.1 The main motive behind this update was Git which announced a vulnerability issue [3] and suggested an update to the latest version as soon as possible. More detail is described in this github blog [4], but in summary, it was a security issue on multi-user systems that has been found and fixed by Git developers. Since Maneage is often installed on such shared systems, it was important to make this update. GNU Coreutils and GNU Emacs were also updated because they are also commonly used. The following improvements have also done with this commit: - .gitignore: ignore emacs auto-save files (that end with a '#') - README-hacking.md: In the checklist for updating the Maneage branch, the no-longer-necessary '--decorate' option of Git was removed from the command to check the general branch history. [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15699 [2] https://git.maneage.org/tarballs-software.git/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqv8veb5i6.fsf@gitster.g/ [4] https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/
2022-04-15./project: new --refresh-bib to force-build bibliographyPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-0/+2
Until now, the bibliography was only re-built when 'tex/src/references.tex' was modified. This is useful in many regular cases because building the bibliography can slow down the build and it is in-efficient to built it in every edit of the text of the paper. However, it can be inconvenient when a change in the paper's bibliography is necessary, without actually editing 'references.tex' (for example when you are removing a citation from the text). This happens because Make is only sensitive to file modification time. In this case, Make does not see the need to create a new 'bib' file because the 'tex/src/reference' is not changed, and only the 'paper.tex' is changed. Make is totally 'blind' to the new 'citation' defined in 'paper.tex'. As a workaround, until now users were forced to manually change the 'tex/src/references.tex' file modification date: either by altering the content, or using the 'touch' command. With this commit, the '--refresh-bib' is added to './project' arguments to address this issue. It will just 'touch' the 'tex/src/references.tex' file before calling Make. In effect, this will 'force' Make to create the bibliography file, even if 'tex/src/references.tex' hasn't been updated.
2022-04-15IMPORTANT: more generic, robust and secure INPUTS.conf and download.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-112/+126
SUMMARY: it is necessary to update your 'INPUTS.conf' and 'download.mk'. Until now, adding an input file involved several steps that needed manual (and inconvenient!) intervention: for every file, you needed to define four variables in 'INPUTS.conf', and in 'reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk' you had to use a (complex for large number of files) shell 'if/elif/else' condition to link the names of the input files to those variables. Besides inconvenience, this could cause bugs (typos!). Furthermore, a basic MD5 checksum was used for verifying the files. With this commit, a new structure has been defined for 'INPUTS.conf' that (thanks to some pretty useful GNU Make features), removes the need for users to manually edit 'reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk', and reduces the number of variables necessary for each file to three (from four). Furthermore, we now use the SHA256 checksum for input data validation. Regarding the trick used in 'INPUTS.conf' (form the newly added description in 'download.mk'): In GNU Make, '.VARIABLES' "... expands to a list of the names of all global variables defined so far" (from the "Other Special Variables" section of the GNU Make manual). Assuming that the pattern 'INPUT-%-sha256' is only used for input files, we find all the variables that contain the input file names (the '%' is the filename). Finally, using the pattern-substitution function ('patsubst'), we remove the fixed string at the start and end of the variable name. Steps you need to take: - INPUTS.conf: translate your old format to the new format (after carefully reading the description in the comments at the start of the file). After applying the new standards, you don't need to use the variables of 'INPUTS.conf' directly in your Makefiles! For example if one of your input datasets is called 'abc.fits', the checksum variable will be 'INPUT-abc.fits-sha256' and in your high-level Makefiles, you can simply set '$(indir)/abc.fits' as a prerequisite (like you probably did already). - reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk: for the definition and rule of 'inputdatasets', simply use the Maneage branch, and remove anything you had added in your project. In the process, I also noticed that 'README-hacking.md' still referred to 'master' as the main project branch, while we have used 'main' in the paper (and is the common convention with Git).
2022-03-10Bug fix: wrong definition of the prepare directory is correctedRaul Infante-Sainz-1/+1
Until now, the definition of the prepare directory was wrong (not in the 'analysis' directory of the build directory). I noticed this after an update of the Maneage branch of one project that requires the prepare step. With this commit, this problem has been fixed.
2022-03-07paper.tex: fix double dash that was not showing up in output pdfPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-5/+5
Until now, the 'double dash' (i.e. \texttt{--}) in the default 'paper.tex' would only print one (longer) dash in the output pdf. With this commit, the double dashes are replaced with '-{}-' in the LaTeX source as a workaround suggested by Stefan Kottwitz in [1]. [1] https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4670&start=0
2022-01-21IMPORTANT: Updates to almost all softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-1813/+2760
This commit primarily affects the configuration step of Maneage'd projects, and in particular, updated versions of the many of the software (see P.S.). So it shouldn't affect your high-level analysis other than the version bumps of the software you use (and the software's possibly improve/changed behavior). The following software (and thus their dependencies) couldn't be updated as described below: - Cryptography: isn't building because it depends on a new setuptools-rust package that has problems (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?61731), so it has been commented in 'versions.conf'. - SecretStorage: because it depends on Cryptography. - Keyring: because it depends on SecretStorage. - Astroquery: because it depends on Keyring. This is a "squashed" commit after rebasing a development branch of 60 commits corresponding to a roughly two-month time interval. The following people contributed to this branch. - Boudewijn Roukema added all the R software infrastructure and the R packages, as well as greatly helping in fixing many bugs during the update. - Raul Infante-Sainz helped in testing and debugging the build. - Pedram Ashofteh Ardakani found and fixed a bug. - Zahra Sharbaf helped in testing and found several bugs. Below a description of the most noteworthy points is given. - Software tarballs: all updated software now have a unified format tarball (ustar; if not possible, pax) and unified compression (Lzip) in Maneage's software repository in Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3883409). For more on this See https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15699 . This won't affect any extra software you would like to add; you can use any format recognized by GNU Tar, and all common compression algorithms. This new requirement is only for software that get merged to the core Maneage branch. - Metastore (and thus libbsd and libmd) moved to highlevel: Metastore (and the packages it depends on) is a high-level product that is only relevant during the project development (like Emacs!): when the user wants the file meta data (like dates) to be unchanged after checking out branches. So it should be considered a high-level software, not basic. Metastore also usually causes many more headaches and error messages, so personally, I have stopped using it! Instead I simply merge my branches in a separate clone, then pull the merge commit: in this way, the files of my project aren't re-written during the checkout phase and therefore their dates are untouched (which can conflict with Make's dates on configuration files). - The un-official cloned version of Flex (2.6.4-91 until this commit) was causing problems in the building of Netpbm, so with this commit, it has been moved back to version 2.6.4. - Netpbm's official page had version 10.73.38 as the latest stable tarball that was just released in late 2021. But I couldn't find our previously-used version 10.86.99 anywhere (to see when it was released and why we used it! Its at last more than one year old!). So the official stable version is being used now. - Improved instructions in 'README.md' for building software environment in a Docker container (while having project source and output data products on the local system; including the usage of the host's '/dev/shm' to speed up temporary operations). - Until now, the convention in Maneage was to put eight SPACE characters before the comment lines within recipes. This was done because by default GNU Emacs (also many other editors) show a TAB as eight characters. However, in other text editors, online browsers, or even the Git diff, a TAB can correspond to a different number of characters. In such cases, the Maneage recipes wouldn't look too interesting (the comments and the recipe commands would show a different indentation!). With this commit, all the comment lines in the Makefiles within the core Maneage branch have a hash ('#') as their first character and a TAB as the second. This allows the comment lines in recipes to have the same indentation as code; making the code much more easier to read in a general scenario including a 'git diff' (editor agnostic!). P.S. List of updated software with their old and new versions - Software with no version update are not mentioned. - The old version of newly added software are shown with '--'. Name (Basic) Old version New version ------------ ----------- ----------- Bzip2 1.0.6 1.0.8 CURL 7.71.1 7.79.1 Dash 0.5.10.2 0.5.11.5 File 5.39 5.41 Flock 0.2.3 0.4.0 GNU Bash 5.0.18 5.1.8 GNU Binutils 2.35 2.37 GNU Coreutils 8.32 9.0 GNU GCC 10.2.0 11.2.0 GNU M4 1.4.18 1.4.19 GNU Readline 8.0 8.1.1 GNU Tar 1.32 1.34 GNU Texinfo 6.7 6.8 GNU diffutils 3.7 3.8 GNU findutils 4.7.0 4.8.0 GNU gmp 6.2.0 6.2.1 GNU grep 3.4 3.7 GNU gzip 1.10 1.11 GNU libunistring 0.9.10 1.0 GNU mpc 1.1.0 1.2.1 GNU mpfr 4.0.2 4.1.0 GNU nano 5.2 6.0 GNU ncurses 6.2 6.3 GNU wget 1.20.3 1.21.2 Git 2.28.0 2.34.0 Less 563 590 Libxml2 2.9.9 2.9.12 Lzip 1.22-rc2 1.22 OpenSLL 1.1.1a 3.0.0 Patchelf 0.10 0.13 Perl 5.32.0 5.34.0 Podlators -- 4.14 Name (Highlevel) Old version New version ---------------- ----------- ----------- Apachelog4cxx 0.10.0-603 0.12.1 Astrometry.net 0.80 0.85 Boost 1.73.0 1.77.0 CFITSIO 3.48 4.0.0 Cmake 3.18.1 3.21.4 Eigen 3.3.7 3.4.0 Expat 2.2.9 2.4.1 FFTW 3.3.8 3.3.10 Flex 2.6.4-91 2.6.4 Fontconfig 2.13.1 2.13.94 Freetype 2.10.2 2.11.0 GNU Astronomy Utilities 0.12 0.16.1-e0f1 GNU Autoconf 2.69.200-babc 2.71 GNU Automake 1.16.2 1.16.5 GNU Bison 3.7 3.8.2 GNU Emacs 27.1 27.2 GNU GDB 9.2 11.1 GNU GSL 2.6 2.7 GNU Help2man 1.47.11 1.48.5 Ghostscript 9.52 9.55.0 ICU -- 70.1 ImageMagick 7.0.8-67 7.1.0-13 Libbsd 0.10.0 0.11.3 Libffi 3.2.1 3.4.2 Libgit2 1.0.1 1.3.0 Libidn 1.36 1.38 Libjpeg 9b 9d Libmd -- 1.0.4 Libtiff 4.0.10 4.3.0 Libx11 1.6.9 1.7.2 Libxt 1.2.0 1.2.1 Netpbm 10.86.99 10.73.38 OpenBLAS 0.3.10 0.3.18 OpenMPI 4.0.4 4.1.1 Pixman 0.38.0 0.40.0 Python 3.8.5 3.10.0 R 4.0.2 4.1.2 SWIG 3.0.12 4.0.2 Util-linux 2.35 2.37.2 Util-macros 1.19.2 1.19.3 Valgrind 3.15.0 3.18.1 WCSLIB 7.3 7.7 Xcb-proto 1.14 1.14.1 Xorgproto 2020.1 2021.5 Name (Python) Old version New version ------------- ----------- ----------- Astropy 4.0 5.0 Beautifulsoup4 4.7.1 4.10.0 Beniget -- 0.4.1 Cffi 1.12.2 1.15.0 Cryptography 2.6.1 36.0.1 Cycler 0.10.0 0.11.0+} Cython 0.29.21 0.29.24 Esutil 0.6.4 0.6.9 Extension-helpers -- 0.1 Galsim 2.2.1 2.3.3 Gast -- 0.5.3 Jinja2 -- 3.0.3 MPI4py 3.0.3 3.1.3 Markupsafe -- 2.0.1 Numpy 1.19.1 1.21.3 Packaging -- 21.3 Pillow -- 8.4.0 Ply -- 3.11 Pyerfa -- 2.0.0.1 Pyparsing 2.3.1 3.0.4 Pythran -- 0.11.0 Scipy 1.5.2 1.7.3 Setuptools 41.6.0 58.3.0 Six 1.12.0 1.16.0 Uncertainties 3.1.2 3.1.6 Wheel -- 0.37.0 Name (R) Old version New version -------- ----------- ----------- Cli -- 2.5.0 Colorspace -- 2.0-1 Cowplot -- 1.1.1 Crayon -- 1.4.1 Digest -- 0.6.27 Ellipsis -- 0.3.2 Fansi -- 0.5.0 Farver -- 2.1.0 Ggplot2 -- 3.3.4 Glue -- 1.4.2 GridExtra -- 2.3 Gtable -- 0.3.0 Isoband -- 0.2.4 Labeling -- 0.4.2 Lifecycle -- 1.0.0 Magrittr -- 2.0.1 MASS -- 7.3-54 Mgcv -- 1.8-36 Munsell -- 0.5.0 Pillar -- 1.6.1 R-Pkgconfig -- 2.0.3 R6 -- 2.5.0 RColorBrewer -- 1.1-2 Rlang -- 0.4.11 Scales -- 1.1.1 Tibble -- 3.1.2 Utf8 -- 1.2.1 Vctrs -- 0.3.8 ViridisLite -- 0.4.0 Withr -- 2.4.2
2021-11-22Fixed faulty spell check correction in software nameFlorian Kohrt-1/+2
As part of Commit 87b510bc, an Emacs spell check was run on the paper. However, during the process, the Jupyter add-on name 'nbextensions' was mistakenly "corrected" to "extension's"! With this commit, it has been corrected to its correct name. The commit message was edited to add more clarity/context, also Florian's name has been added in the acknowledgments by Mohammad.
2021-10-01Configuration: GCC not linking to system libunwind (crashed GCC's build)Boud Roukema-1/+10
This commit provides a hack/correction to the unwrapped GCC source files that sym-links the generic file 'libgcc/unwind-generic.h' to the two directories in which a file includes "unwind.h" or <unwind.h>. The aim is that the gcc compilation system uses this header file from the internal gcc source files instead of searching for a system-level file 'unwind.h'. This commit also unaliases two 'ls' commands in some build recipes of 'basic.mk' in case the host system (normally at user level) has aliased the command to something like 'ls -F'. In the situation that sometimes occurs of library files being given executable status, the '-F' decorative option could lead to an asterisk being included in a string that is not expected to contain asterisks. If the system shell does not contain the 'alias' command at all, then a fallback of 'true' should provide safe behaviour. The notation of the 'sed' command is also clarified. This solves bug #61240: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?61240
2021-07-12Configuration: fixed bugs in building of OpenSSL and GettextMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+5
Until now, the 'RPATH' variable (specifying where to look for shared libraries) wasn't being set in the 'libcrypto' library of OpenSSL (it was only set for the 'libssl' library). Also, Gettext used the host Emacs for some operations during installation that could cause the following crash (because we are giving priority to local libraries, which the host Emacs doesn't recognize): emacs: /BDIR/libcrypto.so.1.1: version `OPENSSL_1_1_1b' not found (required by /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3) With this commit both these bugs have been fixed: 1) Patchelf is run on the 'libcrypto' library also and 2) we pass the '--without-emacs' configuration option to the configure script of Gettext. These bugs were found by Elham Saremi.
2021-07-02Copyedits in appendices, suggested by Antonio Dı́az Dı́azMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+8
Antonio kindly proposed these corrections (mostly in Appendix A, but one also at the start of Appendix B). They are fixed with this commit.
2021-06-25Affiliations in body: France added after Lyon for MohammadMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
While looking at the affiliations, I noticed that "France" was missing in my Lyon affiliation! Also, for both Boud and myself it was necessary to put a '.' after 'Univ' because its short for University and not a full word.
2021-06-25Configuration: New check to see if /dev/shm allows executionBoud Roukema-27/+61
On systems that allow it (like GNU/Linux systems), Maneage will build the necessary software in shared memory (a directory that is actually in the RAM, not on an SSD/HDD, on GNU/Linux systems, it is '/dev/shm'). This allows Maneage to operate faster and not harm the HDD/SSD with all the temporary writing of many small files. Until now, we would only check that this directory exists and that it has enough space. However, some systems also set the 'noexec' flag on shared memory for security reasons [1]. This causes Maneage to crash upon building of the software in later phases. With this commit, at the very start of the configuration step, and after all other shared-memory checks are done, a dummy executable script file is created there and its execution is tested. If it doesn't work, shared memory will not be used at all. In the process, the steps dealing with the software building directory in the configure script have been brought in one place and comments were added to further clarify every step. This commit was initially done by Boud Roukema and later edited by Mohammad Akhlaghi. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210624192819/https://serverfault.com/questions/72356/how-useful-is-mounting-tmp-noexec
2021-06-24Appendix A: minor edits to clarify textMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
While having a fast glance at Appendix A, I noticed two small parts that could be improved by adding a 'from' and using 'Maneage' instead of "the proposed solution". They are corrected with this commit.
2021-06-22Paper title: towards --> toward to conform with CiSE versionMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
I just(!) noticed that in the CiSE version of the paper, they replaced the "Towards" (first word in the title) with "Toward" (removing the 's'). According to thorough history provided by the Merriam-Webster dictionary[1], the difference is mainly because of US/British English. Also, they have slightly changed the capitalizations of the "long-term" phrase, from "Long-term" that we had initially used to "Long-Term". I have no particular opinion on this and accept their judgement. To keep things in line with the published paper, I am correcting both these issues in our version of the paper also (that will later go in arXiv). https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/toward-towards-usage
2021-06-19Copyedit (main body): fixed sentence on importance of historyBoud Roukema-1/+1
This commit changes the rather confused sentence ending "is, thus, not any the less valuable as itself" to "often as valuable as the result itself". This clarifies the intended meaning. The error was unfortunately missed by the proofreaders of our article.
2021-06-15Main body: corrected mistakenly written "bottom" --> "right"Mohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
In the old versions of this paper, the two components of Figure 1 were under each other, so we referred to them as "top" and "bottom"! However, we later put them beside each other (by shrinking the data graph), so they became "left" and "right". I just noticed that within the main body of the text, in one place, we were still mistakenly saying "bottom"! So with this commit, it has been changed to "right". Unfortunately this has gone into the final publication on CiSE, but it is important to fix such minor issues anyway (the good thing with having a Git history!), we also haven't yet put the final upload on arXiv.
2021-06-15Futher copyediting on the apendicesBoud Roukema-3/+3
In the discussion on criteria that Popper lacks, the last mentioned criteria "including the narrative" is written in such a way that can confuse readers into thinking that only a single criteria is lacking. Hyphenating ('including-the-narrative') has been applied to make the sentence less likely to be misunderstood. The ending of the first paragraph in the "Generational gaps" item in Appendix A.G ("... every few years is not practically possible.") sounds like "not almost possible". So it can cause confusions. Endings that are much clearer include: * is impractical. * is not possible in practice. * is not practical. * is not possible practically. [meaning 2. is less likely in this case] I've selected the first option, also replacing "they" by "scientists" to avoid the misinterpretation that "programming languages ... have their own science field to focus on". This commit and the previous one were "amended" by Mohammad (compared to the original commits that Boud had sent).
2021-06-14Copyediting of appendicesBoud Roukema-37/+36
This commit does several small copyediting fixes in the body of the appandices which should improve their readability.
2021-06-13Replace archive.today with archive.org in footnote URLBoud Roukema-1/+1
Based on a reasonable suggestion on ethical reasoning [1], this commit replaces the git.sdf.org + archive.today pair of URLs in the footnote on Github's unethical aspects, with a single archive.org URL, which contains the original URL, making this sufficient for readers wishing to check either the live or archived versions. [1] https://social.privacytools.io/@resist1984/106403926114506533 https://social.privacytools.io/@resist1984/106403932399114639
2021-06-13Add GHTorrent, some https, notabugBoud Roukema-6/+10
This commit adds a few sentences in relation to the first known attempt to store and make available git repository hosting ephemera (GHTorrent, introduced to us by Roberto Di Cosmo). Since one of the two sponsors of GHTorrent is Microsoft, both the ethics and practical aspects of this in the context of reproducibility and scientific ethics as expressed by the international scientific community are rather unclear, so a link to one of the well-known lists of practical and ethical issues with Github is included. A minor fix is made in 'tex/src/appendix-existing-solutions.tex', since the word 'data' is plural (singular is 'datum').
2021-06-11Published version in CiSEMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
This is the version of the project that will be published in Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 82--91.
2021-06-08Minor edits and updated first-page Software Heritage IDMohammad Akhlaghi-12/+13
After going through Boud's corrections and edits in the previous commit, I thought some minor clarifications would be necessary, and they are implemented in this commit. Also, in preparation for submission to the journal, the top-level software heritage ID has been corrected to the latest commit on Software Heritage.
2021-06-08Several minor edits, removed exact value of arXiv's size-limitBoud Roukema-29/+30
This commit makes several copyediting changes to the appendices and to the supplement.tex introduction to the appendices. The ArXiv unofficially increased upload limit of 50 Mb comes from a tweet: https://nitter.fdn.fr/arxiv/status/1286381643893268483 (archive: https://archive.today/PdxhT) but not listed on official ArXiv pages. So it seems safer not to quote a value. The very old value was 0.5 Mb - out of respect to people with low bandwidth, especially scientists in poor countries. Tweets are generally not acceptable as "reliable sources" in en.Wikipedia.
2021-06-08Minor edits suggested by David and updating of Zenodo DOIMohammad Akhlaghi-17/+17
David made suggested some minor edits that are now implemented (most importantly that he would not like to be associated with an ORCID ID). I also "saved" a new Zenodo DOI for the final submission of this paper to Zenodo, but "after" obtaining the page number information and other minor things.
2021-06-08Improved appendix on archivalMohammad Akhlaghi-17/+57
Until now the appendix only touched upon the archival aspects of scholarly research producs (data, code, narrative). To help in clarity, the context of this section has been improved, giving more explanations and examples.
2021-06-07Clarifications added to ReproZip in the appendixMohammad Akhlaghi-5/+14
After Boud posted a notice about Maneage in an online forum [1], Rémi Rampin and Vicky Rampin (from the ReproZip project) replied with some notes about our review of ReproZip in Appendix B. We are very grateful to both Rémi and Vicky for looking into it and for their comments, their contribution has been gratefully acknowledged with this commit. The relevant comments are listed below and have been addressed in this commit (see the 'diff' of this commit). - [Rémi Rampin] ReproZip can capture the build step if you want it to, it's just another command. So if you want to trace "make" and "pip install" etc before tracing your actual experiment, you will have all that build information. - [Rémi Rampin] Bundle size is easily fixed by not putting terabyte-sized data in the bundle, which is done by editing a simple configuration file. - [Vicky Rampin] Not all the files in the bundle are compiled/binary files [in relation to the old sentence "ReproZip just copies the binary/compiled files used in a project"]. [1] https://framapiaf.org/@boud/106296894758145705
2021-06-03Update publications: Peper+Roukema publishedBoud Roukema-18/+22
This commit updates some of the publication data in README-hacking.md : Peper+Roukema (2021) is now published in MNRAS and Akhlaghi+ (2021) is published online and very close to getting a conventional volume and page number. :) See task https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15736 for ideas of how to make a more systematic publication list instead one managed by prose text. There are already too many non-automated places for publication lists where we have to copy/paste our publication data again and again and again and ... This commit also adds the softwareheritage ID that we have in the content of Akhlaghi+2021 (without the extra context, because as a URL that's very long). There are plenty of arguments to be made each way for different versions of the swh IDS. One advantage of the 'rev' ID is that the hash is the original (full) git hash, which is what I've done for the elaphrocentre and subpoisson papers.
2021-06-03Configuration: improved warning when TeX Live couldn't be installedBoud Roukema-8/+12
Once a year, the texlive update system becomes incompatible with the version from the previous year. Since a texlive install failure is considered non-fatal by 'high-level.mk', so until now, the user could miss the printed message and mistakenly believe that the configure is valid. This commit explicitly adds a 10-second delay that should be enough for a user who does the 'configure --existing-conf' step alone to notice that there is a TeX Live problem. It also adds the explicit instruction of how to allow an update from an earlier year's texlive installer to the warning message (by deleting '.build/software/tarballs/install-tl-unx.tar.gz'). I had to rediscover this a few times for old Maneage installs. Also, a few lines in 'reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh' were indented with a TAB (that is not recommended because TAB is displayed with different widths on different browsers). So while doing this commit, those TABs were also converted to a space.
2021-05-26ReproZip, Popper: minor fixesBoud Roukema-4/+4
This commit contains minor fixes in Appendix B. ReproZip: As Vicky Rampin points out [1], ReproZip typically also includes non-binary files, so I removed "just" and improved the wording. Popper: the Popper URL that we gave is obsolete; at Wayback Machine it redirects to getpopper.io [2], so I've updated this; and I've fixed up the wording ('off of' only exists in US English). [1] https://octodon.social/@VickyRampin/106298214313216228 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210425223605/http://falsifiable.us/
2021-05-25Fix typo: s/empemera/ephemera/Boud Roukema-1/+1
2021-05-25Brief notes on archiving as Appendix A.DBoud Roukema-0/+33
This commit adds a few extremely brief and incomplete paragraphs on archiving, including URLs, as what is now subsection D of Appendix A.
2021-05-12Implemented changes of first proof by CiSEMohammad Akhlaghi-111/+141
A few days, CiSE gave us a proof of the edited text and formatted PDF. After comparing the edited text with our text, I noticed some minor editorial issues that have been corrected in this commit. The parts that were wrong (or could be improved in the proof) have been listed and will be submitted to the journal. In particular, following the recommendation from the editor, the biographies were extended with a full listing of each author's affiliation, I also added our ORCID IDs in the biographies.
2021-04-29Minor edit to footnote introducing resolvers for SWHIDMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, the paragraph impilied implicitly that the 'n2t.net' link is the only way to access SWHIDs. Also, context/content duality wasn't too clear in the end where I had mentioned to click on the digital format SWHID. With this commit, I tried to edit it and avoid these two sources of confusion.
2021-04-29Software Heritage resolver info in first footnoteMohammad Akhlaghi-17/+16
The most basic way to resolve a Software Heritage identifier (SWHID) is to prefix it with 'https://archive.softwareheritage.org'. However, Roberto Di Cosmo informed me that SWHIDs are also resolved by 'n2t.net' and 'identifiers.org'. With this commit, on the first occurance of an SWHID, I added some explanation of how to resolve it by adding 'http://n2t.org' (since it was the shorter option). Some further minor edits were made: - In the manuscript submission information, instead of "published on IEEE", I wrote "first published online". The journal name is available on the top of every page and doesn't include "IEEE", so this hopefully avoids some confusion for people who don't know CiSE is published by IEEE. - The URL with the link to Ubuntu images was moved to footnotes to help the readablity and better type-setting of the paragraph. A minor edit was then made in that paragraph to shrink the paragraph by two words that had occupied a whole line in its end. - The first comment line in the second listing (Git commands to start a new branch from Maneage) was slightly edited to avoid the term 'main' (which could be confused with the branch name after 'git checkout -b main'). - In the acknowledgements, the paragraph on Maneage commit/branch information was moved at the top so the people and institutions are acknowledged immediately after each other. - Some minor edits were made in the Spanish acknowledgements to fit with new project names.
2021-04-28Software Heritage IDs (SWHIDs) now printed in PDFMohammad Akhlaghi-14/+15
Until now, the SWHIDs were not accessible in the print version of the paper, they were only hidden as hyper-links within the PDF for readers to click on. This is not a robust way to use the fruits of Software Heritage and was kindly highlighted by Roberto Di Cosmo (principle investigator of Software Heritage) after a first look at the paper. With this commit, following the recommendation of Roberto, all the URLs are corrected to print the raw SWHID as a footnote (for example 'swh:1:dir:...', for directories, or 'swh:1:cnt:...', for contents/files). The click-able link of the SWHID also contains the context (for example "origin" and etc). In the process I noticed that the paper submission/acceptance info was not filled and was also a footnote (which would not be seen if not cited). So this information (received, accepted and published on IEEE) is now taken just under the author list on the first page heading.
2021-04-25README.md: edited steps to only build software env in Docker imageMohammad Akhlaghi-76/+151
Until now, while the series of steps mentioned in 'README.md' were complete, they had some implicit thing in them that made it a little hard to run as a checklist (the commands to do some basic things weren't included). Also, it was recommending to run a long 'docker run ...' command, which wasn't too user friendly. With this commit, the series of steps is now a complete checklist, containing every step. Also, the checklist now recommends putting the long 'docker run' command inside a script called 'docker-run' that will also do a 'sudo' internally (thus making things very easy for a first-time user). Also, since the 'docker-run' script contains host OS-specific directory names, it should not be under control, so it has been added to the '.gitignore' file in case users decide to keep this same name (which is recommended).
2021-04-25DOI added to README and paper's headerMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+3
The DOI of the paper has been minted by IEEE, so as a step to finalize this paper, it has been added to the REAMEME.md and the header of all PDF pages. Along with the DOI in the header, the arXiv and Zenodo links are also added to the header (they are small, and won't bother the reading).
2021-04-17Imported recent work in Maneage, minor conflicts fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-62/+144
Some minor conflicts (all expected from the commit messages in the Maneage branch) occurred but were easily fixed.
2021-04-17IMPORTANT: print-general-metadata new name for print-copyrightMohammad Akhlaghi-77/+115
Summary: - Use the new name of this variable in your Makefiles. - In 'metadata.conf', remove fixed URL prefixes for DOIs ('https://doi.org/') or arXiv ('https://arxiv.org/abs'). Until now, the Make variable that would print the general metadata (of whole project) into each to-be-published dataset was called 'print-copyright'! But it now does much more than simply printing the copyright, it will also print a lot of metadata like arXiv ID, Zenodo DOI and etc into plain-text outputs. The out-dated name could thus be misleading and cause confusions. With this commit, the variable is therefore called 'print-general-metadata'. After merging your project with the Maneage branch, please replace any usage of 'print-copyright' to 'print-general-metadata'. Also with this commit, 'README-hacking.md' mentions 'metadata.conf' and 'print-general-metadata' in the "Publication checklist" section and reminds you to keep the first up to date, and use the second in your to-be-published datasets.
2021-04-17Finally published journal DOI addedMohammad Akhlaghi-73/+72
In the project's 'metadata.conf', we also have an option to store the journal DOI of the project (that will later be printed in the output file products). So now that the paper's DOI has been set by the journal, it was time to add it in the project too. While looking at the usage of the metadata, I noticed that the "Publication checklist" of 'README-hacking.md' didn't talk about it. In fact, the part about putting metadata went into a lot of detail without even mentioning the generic 'print-general-metadata' variable (previously called 'print-copyright') that is created in 'initialize.mk'. So I removed those extra points and just recommended using this variable for plain-text files and putting similar info in other formats. Some other minor changes were made: - The metadata now doesn't need the fixed 'https://doi.org/' prefix (to make it consistent with the arXiv identifier). Inside 'initialize.mk', there are now two variables called 'doi-prefix-url' and 'arxiv-prefix-url' that contain the fixed prefix. - The 'print-copyright' name was clearly outdated for all the extra metadata that this variable created (including the copyright). So its name was changed to 'print-general-metadata'. The generic Maneage changes will be taken into Maneage after this (they were tested here).
2021-04-17Added final review resultMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+147
In the previous commit, I had forgot to put a '-f' before the 'git add'! Becauase '.txt' files are set to be ignored in Git by default (they are marked in '.gitignore'). With this commit this file is now added into the project history.
2021-04-09Implemented EiC (Lorena Barba) comments, and added final reviewMohammad Akhlaghi-139/+138
The email notice of the final acceptance of this paper in CiSE has been included in the project and the stylistic points that were raised by the editor in chief (EiC) have also been implemented. The most important points were: - Including citations within the text structure (as if they would be footnotes), so things like "see \cite{...}" should have been changed. - Hyperlinks should be printed as footnotes (because the journal gets actually printed). Also, to avoid the second listing breaking between pages, it has been moved to after the next paragraph.
2021-04-09Minor corrections on previous copyeditMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Being immutable doesn't necessary mean that something is always present, so an "always present" was also added for the reason we recommend a Git hash. The end of the sentence was also slightly summarized to allow the extra few words. The re-wording of the conclusion of Active papers, was great! I just changed the "likely" to "possible", because as Konrad mentioned in Commit a63900bc5a8, he is now using Guix.
2021-04-09Minor copyeditsBoud Roukema-3/+3
These are minor last minute copyedits for recently added text, e.g. a git hash is not literally a timestamp.
2021-04-09Corrected Roberto's affiliation and emailMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+4
Roberto has recently moved to a new position as professor in the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. With this commit, his short bio and email address have thus been updated in the main paper to reflect this.
2021-04-09Changed all gitlab.com URLs to git.maneage.orgMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+6
Until now, we were primarily linking people to the Gitlab fork of this paper. However, since this paper is part of Maneage, its main repository is on Maneage's own server at http://git.maneage.org/paper-concept.git With this commit therefore, all the gitlab.com URLs have been corrected to owr own Git server. While looking into Git-related points, I also noticed that in the demo code listing showing how to clone Maneage and start a new project, we were using Git's old/depreciated 'master' name. Git (and almost all common repositories) now use 'main' as the default branch name, so this has also been corrected here.
2021-04-09Acknowledged Peter WittenburgMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+2
I attended one of Peter Wittenburg's talks in the context of RDA on the Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research (CWFR). Afterwards I got in touch with him about Maneage and this paper. He kindly read the paper was very supportive of it with positive/encouraging feedback. It was thanks to that discussion that I added CWFR in the discussion (in the previous commit). But since that commit was focused on IAA's suggestions, I am acknowledging Peter here.