@conference {Herraiz:2006:CSN:1116163.1116405, title = {Comparison Between SLOCs and Number of Files As Size Metrics for Software Evolution Analysis}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering}, series = {CSMR {\textquoteright}06}, year = {2006}, pages = {206{\textendash}213}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, organization = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, keywords = {empirical studies, libre software, metrics, software evolution}, isbn = {0-7695-2536-9}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1116163.1116405}, author = {Herraiz, Israel and Gregorio Robles and Gonzalez-Barahon, Jes us M.} } @conference {Robles:2006:GLD:1137983.1138017, title = {Geographic location of developers at SourceForge}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories}, series = {MSR {\textquoteright}06}, year = {2006}, pages = {144{\textendash}150}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {The development of libre (free/open source) software is usually performed by geographically distributed teams. Participation in most cases is voluntary, sometimes sporadic, and often not framed by a pre-defined management structure. This means that anybody can contribute, and in principle no national origin has advantages over others, except for the differences in availability and quality of Internet connections and language. However, differences in participation across regions do exist, although there are little studies about them. In this paper we present some data which can be the basis for some of those studies. We have taken the database of users registered at SourceForge, the largest libre software development web-based platform, and have inferred their geographical locations. For this, we have applied several techniques and heuristics on the available data (mainly e-mail addresses and time zones), which are presented and discussed in detail. The results show a snapshot of the regional distribution of SourceForge users, which may be a good proxy of the actual distribution of libre software developers. In addition, the methodology may be of interest for similar studies in other domains, when the available data is similar (as is the case of mailing lists related to software projects).}, keywords = {distributed, email, email address, free software, geographical location, geography, libre software, mining software repositories, open source software, sourceforge, timezone}, isbn = {1-59593-397-2}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138017}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138017}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/144GeographicLocation.pdf}, author = {Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona} } @article {1232, title = {Integration of libre software applications to create a collaborative work platform for researchers at GET}, journal = {International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering}, volume = {1}, number = {3}, year = {2006}, month = {07/2006}, pages = {1-16}, publisher = {IGI Global}, abstract = {Libre software provides powerful applications ready to be integrated for the build-up of platforms for internal use in organizations. We describe the architecture of the collaborative work platform which we have integrated, designed for researchers at GET. We present the elements we have learned during this project in particular with respect to contribution to external libre projects, in order to better ensure the maintainability of the internal applications, and to phpGroupware as a framework for specific applications development.}, keywords = {collaborative work environment, contribution, free software, groupware, in-house applications, libre software, open source software, OpenLDAP, phpGroupware, PicoLibre, ProGET, Sympa, TWiki, WebDAV, wiki}, author = {Olivier Berger and Christian Bac and Benoit Hamet} } @conference {782, title = {Towards Supporting Agile Practice Within The Libre Software Paradigm}, booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems }, year = {2005}, pages = {303-304}, abstract = {Individual agile methods have never been practiced as defined, in the same way that Royce{\textquoteright}s waterfall [1] model never reflected actual practice. Instead, practitioners adapted the core principles of these processes in order to suit their needs. Understanding this is key to appreciating the agile mindset. What does exist is a set of principles1 which, when followed loosely, form the agile practices. It is an important part of the agile mentality that the individuals within a project are more important that the process they follow. However, the individual methods do have their own identifying features that make them unique; for example testing must be performed before coding within eXtreme Programming (XP) [2]. However, if practitioners were to apply XP, exactly as Beck describes it, then they are probably not {\textquotedblleft}doing agile{\textquotedblright} as they may not be following the process that suits their needs best. One of the interesting features of the XP method is its requirement of a collocated team. Th...}, keywords = {agile methods, agile practice, extreme programming, libre software, open source, XP}, url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/1546}, author = {Adams, Paul and Boldyreff, Cornelia} }