History of SSABook

[pfalcon]

To understand how SSABook came along the way it did, and see if it may go further (being "completed" or something), it may be helpful to know its history. This ticket is to collect bits and pieces of it.

[pfalcon]

HackerNews discussion 2015-04-14: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376184

[pfalcon]

Hi @pbiggar, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378116 (a comment to HN topic about SSABook linked in the previous comment) you wrote:

For context, I was involved for a bit in writing this book, and I was at the conference that spawned it

Based on the timing of the 1st commit to the SSABook repo (May 2009), my guess that "conference that spawned it" was the SSA Seminar at Autrans, April 2009. Any chance you could confirm that?

(Otherwise, pinging you based on the wild guess that you may be more accessible on Github than other SSABook folks. Thanks for the response in advance.)

[pbiggar]

Hey @pfalcon! Yes, that was the conference. The driving force behind the book is (Fabrice Rastello)[https://team.inria.fr/corse/team-members/fabrice-rastello/]; I helped out setting up some infra for the book's latex build stuff and other administration. There have been a couple of drives to get it published, the last one being in 2018, but haven't heard anything recently.

[pfalcon]

@pbiggar, thanks for reply and confirmation (and all the work you and other folks did on this book)! There was announcement that InriaForge is going to shut down by the end of the year, which, I conjectured, could bring SVN repo for the SSABook down. I emailed Fabrice and some other recent committers (indeed, from 2018) regarding migration plans, but didn't get any reply, so decided to make this humble mirror. Hopefully, the official repo will be migrated yet before the end of year...

[garandria]

HI @pfalcon
You have a paragraph on how the SSA Book started in the Synthesis report for 2012 Inria evaluation of COMPSYS' website. See Organization of scientific events then SSA of page 21.

[pfalcon]

@garandria: Nice, thanks for the reference!