Title :
Impact of the Creation of the Mozilla Foundation in the Activity of Developers
Author :
Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M. ; Robles, Gregorio ; Herraiz, Israel
Author_Institution :
GSyC/LibreSoft, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
Abstract :
During 2003, the Mozilla project transitioned from company-promoted (sponsored by AOL) to community-promoted (sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation). What happened to the group of developers during this transition? There was any significant impact on its activity or composition? To answer these questions, we have performed an analysis of the CVS repository of Mozilla, using the CVSAnalY tool, finding little on activity, but dramatic changes in the the composition of the development team.
Keywords :
Internet; software engineering; Internet suite; Mozilla project foundation; software developer; Databases; History; Information retrieval; Internet; Navigation; Open source software; Performance analysis; Programming; Software development management; Firefox; Mozilla; software development; source code management system;
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.2007.15
