Mining CVS repositories, the softChange experience

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Title	Mining CVS repositories, the softChange experience
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2004
Authors	German, D
Secondary Title	Proc. Int'l Workshop on Mining Software Repositories ({MSR})
Pagination	17–21
Keywords	bugzilla, cvs, email archives, log files, logs, softchange
Abstract	CVS logs are a rich source of software trails (information left behind by the contributors to the development process, usually in the forms of logs). This paper describes how softChange extracts these trails, and enhances them. This paper also addresses some challenges that CVS fact extraction poses to researchers.
Notes	"Mailing lists. Mailing lists are an important source of information about the evolution of the project. We currently correlate MRs [modification requests] to mail messages by using the author and the date attributes of both the MR and the message."
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