Warehousing and Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata

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Title	Warehousing and Studying Open Source Versioning Metadata
Publication Type	Book
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	van Antwerp, M, Madey, G
Secondary Authors	Ågerfalk, Pär, Boldyreff, C, González-Barahona, JM, Madey, GR, Noll, J
Secondary Title	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Open Source Software: New Horizons (OSS 2010)
Volume	319
Pagination	413 - 418
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Place Published	Berlin, Heidelberg
ISBN Number	978-3-642-13244-5
ISSN Number	1861-2288
Keywords	berlios, cvs, savannah, scm, sourceforge, srda, subversion, svn
Abstract	In this paper, we describe the downloading and warehousing of Open Source Software (OSS) versioning metadata from SourceForge, BerliOS Developer, and GNU Savannah. This data enables and supports research in areas such as software engineering, open source phenomena, social network analysis, data mining, and project management. This newly-formed database containing Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN) metadata offers new research opportunities for large-scale OSS development analysis. The CVS and SVN data is juxtaposed with the SourceForge.net Research Data Archive [5] for the purpose of performing more powerful and interesting queries. We also present an initial statistical analysis of some of the most active projects.
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_40
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