Open Source Software (OSS) has attracted enormous media and research attention since the term was coined in February 1998. The concept itself is founded on the paradoxical premise...
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
In distributed software development, two sorts of dependencies can arise. The structure of the software system itself can create dependencies between software elements, while the ...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jon Froehlich, Paul Douri...
This paper discusses in detail a possible methodology for collecting repository data on a large number of open source software projects from a single project hosting and community...
Open source software such as the operating system Linux has in a few years created much attention as an alternative way to develop and distribute software. Open source is to let an...