Who Contributes to What? Exploring Hidden Relationships between FLOSS Projects

TitleWho Contributes to What? Exploring Hidden Relationships between FLOSS Projects
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsSyeed, MMM, Hammouda, I
Secondary AuthorsCorral, L, Sillitti, A, Succi, G, Vlasenko, J, Wasserman, AI
Secondary TitleOpen Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies
Series TitleIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume427
Pagination21-30
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN Number978-3-642-55127-7
Abstract

In this paper we address the challenge of tracking resembling open source projects by exploiting the information of which developers contribute to which projects. To do this, we have performed a social network study to analyze data collected from the Ohloh repository. Our findings suggest that the more shared contributors two projects have, the more likely they resemble with respect to properties such as project application domain, programming language used and project size.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_3
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_3
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