Impact of the Creation of the Mozilla Foundation in the Activity of Developers

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Title	Impact of the Creation of the Mozilla Foundation in the Activity of Developers
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2007
Authors	Gonzalez-Barahona, JM, Robles, G, Herraiz, I
Secondary Title	Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)
Pagination	28 - 28
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Minneapolis, MN, USA
ISBN Number	0-7695-2950-X
Keywords	cvs, cvsanaly, developers, mining challenge, mozilla, msr challenge, revision history
Abstract	During 2003, the Mozilla project transitioned from company-promoted (sponsored by AOL) to community-promoted (sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation). What happened to the group of developers during this transition? There was any significant impact on its activity or composition? To answer these questions, we have performed an analysis of the CVS repository of Mozilla, using the CVSAnalY tool, finding little on activity, but dramatic changes in the the composition of the development team.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2007.15
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