@article {flosswp175, title = {Applying Social Network Analysis to the Information in CVS Repositories}, year = {2004}, month = {June}, abstract = {The huge quantities of data available in the CVS repositories of large, long-lived libre (free, open source) software projects, and the many interrelationships among those data offer opportunities for extracting large amounts of valuable information about their structure, evolution and internal processes. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of that information renders it almost unusable without applying methodologies which highlight the relevant information for a given aspect of the project. In this paper, we propose the use of a well known set of methodologies (social network analysis) for characterizing libre software projects, their evolution over time and their internal structure. In addition, we show how we have applied such methodologies to real cases, and extract some preliminary conclusions from that experience.}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/llopez-sna-short.pdf}, author = {Luis Lopez} } @proceedings {1190, title = {Community structure of modules in the Apache project}, year = {2004}, pages = {44-48}, abstract = {The relationships among modules in a software project of a certain size can give us much information about its internal organization and a way to control and monitor development activities and evolution of large libre software projects. In this paper, we show how information available in CVS repositories can be used to study the structure of the modules in a project when they are related by the people working in them, and how techniques taken from the social networks fields can be used to highlight the characteristics of that structure. As a case example, we also show some results of applying this methodology to the Apache project in several points in time. Among other facts, it is shown how the project evolves and is self-structuring, with developer communities of modules corresponding to semantically related families of modules.}, keywords = {apache, cvs, source code}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/gonzalezBarahona44-48.pdf}, author = {Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Luis Lopez and Gregorio Robles} }