@conference {1226,
	title = {Understanding the KDE Social Structure through Mining of Email Archive},
	booktitle = {2nd Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2007)},
	year = {2007},
	note = {"Our data source is constituted by e-mails sent to KDE mailing-lists and archived by MARC"

"Two problems quickly arise: neither the e-mails addresses nor the names can be considered unique. Consequently, we used an in-depth search algorithm to put together {\textquotedblleft}name-email{\textquotedblright} couples corresponding to a same contributor. Indeed, the algorithm suggests possible merges."

"There is a specific mailing list in our data set, kde-commit, which gathers automatic notifications from the revision control system (RCS)....We measure {\textquotedblleft}commit{\textquotedblright} by the number of messages sent to the {\textquotedblleft}kde-commit{\textquotedblright} mailing list. However, we did not count {\textquotedblleft}silent{\textquotedblright} commits, nor usual messages sent to this mailing list."

"We measured activities done in BTS in two ways: {\textquotedblleft}bug opener{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}non bug opener{\textquotedblright}.	First, we counted the number of modifications done by the contributor who opened the concerned bug report. "
},
	abstract = {In order to achieve a better understanding of FLOSS social structure, we need a definition of social position. From a theoretical perspective, we propose to think the participation as a trajectory. Empirically, we use optimal matching to build a typology of participation trajectories based on KDE email archives. We show how these trajectories structure the community as a whole by combining these results with a social network analysis.},
	keywords = {bug tracking system, bugzilla, commit, email, email archive, kde, mailing list, participation, revision control, social network analysis},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/wopdasd_studer_et_all_full.pdf},
	author = {Studer, Matthias and M{\"u}ller, Beno{\^\i}t and Ritschard, Gilbert}
}
