@conference {930, title = {Author entropy vs. file size in the GNOME suite of applications}, booktitle = {2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories}, year = {2009}, pages = {91 - 94}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, abstract = {We present the results of a study in which author entropy was used to characterize author contributions per file. Our analysis reveals three patterns: banding in the data, uneven distribution of data across bands, and file size dependent distributions within bands. Our results suggest that when two authors contribute to a file, large files are more likely to have a dominant author than smaller files.}, keywords = {author entropy, contributions, gnome, msr challenge}, isbn = {978-1-4244-3493-0}, doi = {10.1109/MSR.2009.5069484}, author = {Casebolt, Jason R. and Krein, Jonathan L. and MacLean, Alexander C. and Knutson, Charles D. and Delorey, Daniel P.} }