Mining in Free and Open Source Software
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One of the non-deniable success factors of FOSS projects presents a community established around it. The FOSS communities present dynamic ecologies: the participants are free to come and leave and have a potential to assume different roles within a project. An appealing factor about FOSS analysis is that almost the whole project management takes place in Web resources. Also the code and its evolution history are freely available for mining within revision control systems. The data collected over years and even decades within communities with up to hundred thousands of participants present a great unplugged pool for investigations.
Community Detection in FOSS Projects Bioperl und Biopython
Detection of communities and cross-project brokers in Bioperl and Biopython FOSS
Community vs System
Bioperl developer network generated based on communication history within the project mailing lists (links) in comparison to the Bioperl developer network generated based on collaborative editing of the system components according to GIT-history (right).
Research staff
Theses
- Open Source Dynamics: Community vs. Development (Open)
- A Web-Based Reporting Dashboard for Open-Source Projects (Running)
- Requirements Detection within Enduser Mailinglists (2013)
Publications
- Community Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects: Aging and Social Reshaping
- An Adaptive Filter-Framework for the Quality Improvement of Open-Source Software Analysis
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Soziale Interaktion in Open-Source-Communitys
Published in Open Source - Konzepte, Risiken, Trends, Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, HMD 283, 49. Jahrgang, Februar 2012
