Vision and Concept
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Software systems in a scientific context:

- Large: Often tens to hundreds of software components
- Heterogeneous: Hosting solutions, version control systems, programming languages, build systems, licenses, maintenance models, 3rd party/1st party, legacy components
- Complex: Dependency structure, versions, variability

Researchers develop software in many different ways:

- Everyone tries to use best suited technologies and process
- Different non-functional requirements (documentation, maintainability, maturity, level of professionalism in development process)
- Teams set up their own CI, sometimes repository hosting – centralized IT services focus on other aspects


Bringing together multiple usually disparate aspects:

- Organizational, social and historical aspects of projects
- Versioning (across version control systems and repository hosting solutions)
- Build system-level dependencies (across build systems and programming languages)

...to facilitate

- Construction and testing
- Deployment
- (Re-)use and reproducibility
- Documentation
- Dissemination

...of large, heterogeneous, complex research software system

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Simplified Meta Model
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Build Generator Process
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Bootstrapping Process
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Docker Builds
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