Analysis of Activity in the Open Source Software Development Community

Author

Christley, Scott ; Madey, Greg

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Notre Dame Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 2007

Abstract

Open source software is computer software for which the source code is publicly open for inspection, modification, and redistribution. While research of a few, large, successful projects have provided insights into the nature and practices of the open source software community; it still leaves open the question about the thousands of other open source projects which are neither large or highly successful. In this paper, we describe a data set of SourceForge.net, the world´s largest open source software development site, which is available for research purposes; we discuss various data mining techniques that can be applied to the data and the type of research questions that can be answered. We apply a few of these techniques and provide analysis of the results

Keywords

Web sites; data mining; public domain software; very large databases; SourceForge.net open source software development Web site; computer software; data mining techniques; Computer bugs; Data mining; Databases; History; Information analysis; Inspection; Open source software; Programming; Project management; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2007.74

Filename

4076711