Paper Info
Title
Evolution of the core team of developers in libre software projects
Abstract
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanence of this group of most active developers is of great importance for the evolution and sustainability of the project. In this position paper we propose a quantitative methodology to study the evolution of core teams by analyzing information from source code management repositories. The most active developers in different periods are identified, and their activity is calculated over time, looking for core team evolution patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/MSR.2009.5069497
MSR
Keywords
Field
DocType
quantitative methodology,core team evolution pattern,position paper,source code management repository,libre software project,core team,different period,small number,active developer,great importance,open source,indexes,information retrieval,history,visualization,information analysis,heating,stability,public domain software,design methodology,databases,source code,software performance,data mining
Software engineering,Computer science,Visualization,Position paper,Design methods,Software performance testing,Software,Revision control,Team software process,Sustainability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
1.29
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregorio Robles1129491.67
Jesús M. González-Barahona268345.94
Israel Herraiz350326.83