Title :
Mining CVS Repositories to Understand Open-Source Project Developer Roles
Author :
Yu, Liguo ; Ramaswamy, Srini
Author_Institution :
Indiana Univ. South Bend, South Bend
Abstract :
This paper presents a model to represent the interactions of distributed open-source software developers and utilizes data mining techniques to derive developer roles. The model is then applied on case studies of two open-source projects, ORAC-DR and Mediawiki with encouraging results.
Keywords :
data mining; data warehouses; distributed programming; human factors; project management; public domain software; software development management; CVS repository mining; Mediawiki project; ORAC-DR project; data mining techniques; developer interactions; distributed open-source software developement; open-source project developer roles; Associate members; Cognitive science; Collaborative work; Computer science; Data mining; Frequency measurement; Informatics; Open source software; Software engineering; Software measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories, 2007. ICSE Workshops MSR '07. Fourth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2950-X
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2007.19
