<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">German, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Audris Mockus</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Automating the measurement of open source projects</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">bug reports</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">bug tracking</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">changelog</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cvs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defects</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">evolution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">log files</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">logs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mailing list</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scm</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">softchange</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">source code</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ximian</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ximian evolution</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/germanMockus2003.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">63–67</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The proliferation of open source projects raises a number of vital economic, social, and software engineering questions that are subject of intense research. Based on experience analyzing numerous open source and commercial projects we propose a set of tools to support extraction and validation of software project data. Such tools would streamline empirical investigation of open source projects and make it possible to test existing and new theories about the nature of open source projects. Our soft- ware includes tools to extract and summarize information from mailing lists, CVS logs, ChangeLog files, and defect tracking databases. More importantly, it cross-links records from various data sources and identifies all contributors for a software change. We illustrate some of the capabilities by analyzing data from Ximian Evolution project.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&quot;We have chosen to use Evolution to illustrate some of the capabilities of SoftChange. We focus on the data provided by CVS logs and the CVS commit mailing list. Our data includes changes to the CVS repository from April 1998 to January 2003.&quot;</style></notes></record></records></xml>