@conference {1798,
	title = {Integrating Open Source Software Repositories on the Web through Linked Data},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {114 - 121},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the problem of integrating code forges based on metadata (e.g., programming language, database, intended audience, operating system), similar software projects and software developers. We review the current problems in integrating metadata of different code forges and argue that Semantic Web technologies are suitable for representing and integrating knowledge contained inside these code forges. Further, we show the advantages of interlinking metadata of software projects to other relevant data sources on the Web, which will enable querying more information from the Web. Moreover, we compute the overlapping between code forges based on similar software developers and argue the benefit of interlinking similar software developers and software projects across different code forges through examples.
},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2015.27},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and Decker, Stefan}
}
@conference {1797,
	title = {On the Need of Integrating Social Media Channels and Open Source Software Repositories},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {396 - 402},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {The growing interest in the usage of social media channels have attracted the open source software community to adopt an identity in order to disseminate project-related information to a wider audience. We foresee the need to integrate social media channels and open source software repositories in order to get an integrated view on the software project not only from the software development perspective but also from social perspective. Therefore, in this paper we study the usage of Twitter by software developers through harvesting their project-related activities on Twitter. In particular, we present the most frequently used hashtags by software developers and further investigate if project-related hashtags are the most frequent and commonly used hashtags by software developers. Based on our findings, we argue that relevant information from social media channels should be integrated with the open source software repositories in order to provide a homogeneous view on a software project.
},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2015.66},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and Decker, Stefan}
}
@article {1817,
	title = {Understanding Contributor to Developer Turnover Patterns in OSS Projects: A Case Study of Apache Projects},
	journal = {ISRN Software Engineering},
	volume = {201411},
	year = {2014},
	month = {2014},
	pages = {1 - 10},
	abstract = {OSS projects are dynamic in nature. Developers
contribute to a project for a certain period of time and later
leave the project or join other projects of high interest. Hence,
the OSS community always welcomes members who can attain
the role of a developer in a project. In this paper, we investigate
contributions made by members who have attained the role of
a developer. In particular, we study the contributions made by
the members in terms of bugs reported, comments on bugs,
source-code patch submissions, and their social relation with
other members of an OSS community. Further, we study the
significance of nondevelopers contribution and investigate if
and to what extent they play a role in the long-term survival
of an OSS project. Moreover, we investigate the ratio of
contributions made by a member before and after attaining
the role of a developer. We have outlined 4 research questions
in this regard and further discuss our findings based on the
research questions by taking into account data from software
repositories of 4 different Apache projects.},
	keywords = {apache},
	doi = {10.1155/2014/535724},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab}
}
@proceedings {1552,
	title = {Analyzing Social Behavior of Software Developers Across Different Communication Channels},
	year = {2013},
	abstract = {Software developers use different project repositories (i.e., mailing list, bug tracking repositories, discussion forums etc.) to interact with each other or to solve software related problems. The growing interest in the usage of social media channels (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) have also attracted the open source software community and software developers to adopt an identity in order to disseminate project-related information to a wider audience. Much research has been carried out to analyze the social behavior of software developers in different project repositories but so far no one has tried to study the social communication patterns of developers in other social media channels. We in this paper presents a new dimension to the social aspects of software developers and study if the social communication patterns of software developers is different on project repositories and social media channels (i.e., Twitter).},
	keywords = {communication, developer, social media},
	url = {http://index.ksi.edu/conf/seke/2013/cr/296.pdf},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/iqbal_a_et_al_june_2013.pdf},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and M Karnstedt and M Hausenblas}
}
@article {1553,
	title = {Interlinking Developer Identities within and across Open Source Projects: The Linked Data Approach},
	journal = {ISRN Software Engineering},
	volume = {201330692164},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013},
	pages = {1 - 12},
	abstract = {Software developers use various software repositories in order to interact with each other or to solve related problems. These repositories provide a rich source of information for a wide range of tasks. However, one issue to overcome in order to make this information useful is the identification and interlinking of multiple identities of developers. In this paper, we propose a Linked Data-based methodology to interlink and integrate multiple identities of a developer found in different software repositories of a project as well as across repositories of multiple projects. Providing such interlinking will enable us to keep track of a developer{\textquoteright}s activity not only within a single project but also across multiple projects. The methodology will be presented in general and applied to 5 Apache projects as a case study. Further, we show that the few methods suggested so far are not always appropriate to overcome the developer identification problem.},
	keywords = {developer, identity, linked data},
	doi = {10.1155/2013/58473110.1007/s10664-009-9110-310.1109/TSE.2005.7010.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_4},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/584731.pdf},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and Hausenblas, Michael}
}
@conference {1640,
	title = {Integrating developer-related information across open source repositories},
	booktitle = {2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on Information Reuse \& Integration (IRI)2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on Information Reuse \& Integration (IRI)},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {69 - 76},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Las Vegas, NV, USA},
	abstract = {Software developers use various software repositories in order to interact with each other or to solve software related problems. They are required to adopt an identity for each of the software repositories they wanted to use. Quite often developers are also found on different code forges developing open source projects. It is worth mentioning that the information relevant to the developers are distributed on the Web among different data sources each requires an ID and an authentication mechanism. In this paper, we propose to interlink the identities of a developer across different data sources on the Web. Further, we show the benefit of integrating developer-related information from different data sources using some real-world scenarios.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-2283-6},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2012.6302993},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Iqbal_A_et_al_Aug_2012.pdf},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and Hausenblas, Michael}
}
@article {1589,
	title = {Integrating FLOSS repositories on the Web},
	year = {2012},
	note = {"To provide the researchers easy access to the project{\textquoteright}s data, two research projects were initiated (with slightly different objective)
by the FLOSS research community which are FLOSSmole and FLOSSMetrics , also known as {\textquotedblleft}repository of repositories (RoR){\textquotedblright}. These RoRs were created to consolidate metadata and analysis of projects from a variety of code forges into a centralized place for use by the researchers in academia and industry.

"In this paper, we take into consideration only project{\textquoteright}s metadata from the code forges which are
made available to download by the FLOSSmole community. Further, we only study Googlecode
and Sourceforge data for this paper, although our methods extend to other code forges as well.

Names are not available for the developers in the database dump of
Googlecode provided by FLOSSmole, so we consider matching only developer ID(s) in the case of
Googlecode."},
	month = {2012},
	abstract = {This paper provides a novel approach to the problem of integrating data from multiple code forges of FLOSS. We review the current problems in integrating the data from multiple forges and argue that Semantic Web technologies are suitable for representing knowledge contained in code forges. Further, we show the advantage of linking the metadata of projects to other data sources on the Web which will enable querying extra information from the Web. The paper briefly describes how the modeling is achieved and what benefits can be obtained by enabling linking to other relevant data sources already available on the Web.},
	keywords = {flossmole, google code, sourceforge},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259757473_Integrating_FLOSS_repositories_on_the_Web},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/DERI-TR-AFTAB-2012-12-10_0.pdf},
	author = {Iqbal, Aftab and Cyganiak, Richard and Hausenblas, Michael}
}
