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mario-fa at infonet

Nov 25, 2009, 5:13 PM

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Study about developer and commits.

We are studying behavior and characteristic about Open Source Software (OSS)
development using by reference â€œWhat can OSS mailing lists tell us? A
preliminary psychometric text analysis of the Apache developer mailing list
(Hassan , Rigby)â€ that used the Apache httpd server developer mailing list.
We need to know are major developer commit in the Project Apache HTTP Server
(4 developers) for to continue our study. Do you help us? Where do We can
find this information?
Thanks you for your attention.

MÃ¡rio AndrÃ©
Masterâ€™s degree student
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mario-fa at infonet

Nov 26, 2009, 8:17 AM

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Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

Dear Developers,

We are studying behavior and characteristic about Open Source Software (OSS)
development using by reference “What can OSS mailing lists tell us? A
preliminary psychometric text analysis of the Apache developer mailing list
(Hassan , Rigby)” that used the Apache httpd server developer mailing list.

We need to know are major developer commit in the Project Apache HTTP Server
(4 developers), for to continue our study.

In period:

Developer A: Top committer in release 1.3 (We guess 1997-1998)

Developer B: Top committer in release 2.0 ("developer B was the top
committer for 1999 and 2000")

Developer C: developer C was the top committer for 2001 and 2002

Developer D: (We guess 2003 - 2005)

Do you help us? Where do We can find this information?

Thank you for attention.

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Mário André

Master’s degree student

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Sergipe - IFS

Mestrando em MCC - Universidade Federald de Alagoas - UFAL

http://www.marioandre.com.br/

Skype: mario-fa

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tokiley at aol

Nov 26, 2009, 11:52 AM

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Re: Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

Mario...

If you would get someone in your department who knows the English
language a little better to rewrite the request you might get a little
more traction.

I THINK I can 'decipher' what the heck you are asking but not
well enough to risk a response.

Yours
Kevin Kiley

PS: A 'psychometric text analysis of the Apache developer mailing list'.
Now there's a best-seller. It would be somewhere between a
dime-store mystery novel and a Greek Epic. LOL.

-----Original Message-----
From: MÃ¡rio AndrÃ© <mario-fa [at] infonet>
To: dev [at] httpd; 'M Jr' <mjrse [at] hotmail>
Sent: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 9:17 am
Subject: Study about developer and commits.

Dear Developers,
We are studying behavior and characteristic about OpenSource Software (OSS) development using by reference â€œWhat can OSSmailing lists tell us? A preliminary psychometric text analysis of the Apachedeveloper mailing list (Hassan , Rigby)â€ that used the Apache httpdserver developer mailing list.
We need to know are major developer commit in the ProjectApache HTTP Server (4 developers), for to continue our study.
In period:
Developer A: Top committer in release 1.3 (We guess1997-1998)
Developer B: Top committer in release 2.0 ("developer Bwas the top committer for 1999 and 2000")
Developer C: developer C was the top committer for 2001 and2002
Developer D: (We guess 2003 - 2005)

Do you help us? Where do We can find this information?

Thank you for attention.

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MÃ¡rio AndrÃ©
Masterâ€™s degree student
InstitutoFederal de EducaÃ§Ã£o, CiÃªncia e Tecnologia de Sergipe - IFS
Mestrandoem MCC - Universidade Federald de Alagoas - UFAL
http://www.marioandre.com.br/
Skype:mario-fa
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rpluem at apache

Nov 26, 2009, 1:41 PM

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Re: Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

On 11/26/2009 10:06 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
> 2009/11/26 Mário André <mario-fa [at] infonet>:
>> Dear Kevin,
>>
>> So, I want to know who are developers that more contributed with the Apache
>> project in period:
>>
>> - Release 1.3 (1997 and 1998)
>>
>> - Release 2.0 (1999 and 2000)
>>
>> - 2001 and 2002
>>
>> - 2003 - 2005.
>>
>> Did you understand me?
>>
>
> Looking at the top users here might get you on the right track, and it
> even has a sense of time:
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/apache/contributors

Or here:

http://httpd.markmail.org/search/?q=#query:list%3Aorg.apache.httpd.cvs+page:1+state:facets
http://httpd.markmail.org/search/list:org%2Eapache%2Ehttpd%2Edev

Regards

Rüdiger

tokiley at aol

Nov 26, 2009, 6:45 PM

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Re: Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

> Mario wrote...
>
> Dear Kevin,
> So, I want to know who are (the) developers that more contributed
> (contributed more) with (to) the Apache project in period:
> - Release 1.3 (1997 and 1998)
> - Release 2.0 (1999 and 2000)
> - 2001 and 2002
> - 2003 - 2005.
> Did (Do) you understand me?

Now, yes.

I addition to the links Eric and RÃ¼diger have posted the following
might be helpful...

Back in August of this year tna [at] sharanet ( Tomislav Nakic-A)
posted a news item to this development list about a new 'tool'
that can be used to analyze the Apache Subversion repository.
AFAIK it would be able to be tell you exactly what you seek to
know for any timeframe since Subversion was first used for
Apache development.

For timeframes prior to the first use of Subversion by apache.org
you will need to find a 'wayback' machine that contains the
original *Nix CVS development activity.

See the following message thread from August...

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev [at] httpd/msg44886.html

[snip]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM, t.n.a. <tna [at] sharanet> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am the author of the PanBI <http://www.PanBI.org> open source business
intelligence project. PanBI provides data extraction, transformation
and loading logic as well as data warehouse schemas for a number of
systems and Subversion - used by Apache - is one of the systems supported.

I have designed a dedicated Subversion data warehouse and loading logic
so that Subversion repository data can be analyzed using OLAP tools. To
demonstrate the functionality, I have made a short screencast
<http://panbi.sourceforge.net/systems/subversion/olap.html> (7 minutes)
using none other than the Apache web server's code repository as the one
under analysis.

[/snip]

I hope that helps.

Yours
Kevin Kiley

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruediger Pluem <rpluem [at] apache>
To: dev [at] httpd
Sent: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 2:41 pm
Subject: Re: Study about developer and commits.

On 11/26/2009 10:06 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
> 2009/11/26 MÃ¡rio AndrÃ© <mario-fa [at] infonet>:
>> Dear Kevin,
>>
>> So, I want to know who are developers that more contributed with the Apache
>> project in period:
>>
>> - Release 1.3 (1997 and 1998)
>>
>> - Release 2.0 (1999 and 2000)
>>
>> - 2001 and 2002
>>
>> - 2003 - 2005.
>>
>> Did you understand me?
>>
>
> Looking at the top users here might get you on the right track, and it
> even has a sense of time:
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/apache/contributors

Or here:

http://httpd.markmail.org/search/?q=#query:list%3Aorg.apache.httpd.cvs+page:1+state:facets
http://httpd.markmail.org/search/list:org%2Eapache%2Ehttpd%2Edev

Regards

RÃ¼diger

wrowe at rowe-clan

Nov 30, 2009, 2:16 AM

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Re: Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

tokiley [at] aol wrote:
>
> Back in August of this year tna [at] sharanet ( Tomislav Nakic-A)
> posted a news item to this development list about a new 'tool'
> that can be used to analyze the Apache Subversion repository.
> AFAIK it would be able to be tell you exactly what you seek to
> know for any timeframe since Subversion was first used for
> Apache development.
>
> For timeframes prior to the first use of Subversion by apache.org
> you will need to find a 'wayback' machine that contains the
> original *Nix CVS development activity.

Should be a non-issue; these were imported with history from CVS, so
to SVN such details should be preserved (only back to 1.3.0 - older CVS
repos were not converted). So, for example, all the work on 1.2 will
be missing altogether.

wrowe at rowe-clan

Nov 30, 2009, 11:03 AM

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Re: Study about developer and commits. [In reply to]

mario-fa wrote:
>
> We are studying behavior and characteristic about Open Source Software (OSS)
> development using by reference â€œWhat can OSS mailing lists tell us? A
> preliminary psychometric text analysis of the Apache developer mailing list
> (Hassan , Rigby)â€ that used the Apache httpd server developer mailing list.
> We need to know are major developer commit in the Project Apache HTTP Server
> (4 developers) for to continue our study. Do you help us? Where do We can
> find this information?

You might want to also pay attention to the fact that the committer is not
necessarily the author, and that all commits don't qualify as development.

Jim and myself might appear to write over half the code, but in fact we have
handled much of the drudgery of releases and major refactorings such as updating
copyright dates, correcting style errors, and these appear to be 'work', but they
don't entirely represent development. Similarly, many of us commit (with svn log
notes) contributions from non-committers, submitted to the bug tracking system
or the mailing lists.

In other words, those statistics are not useful as empirical data unless you
plan to distinguish and classify all of the specific commits. All of the
detailed Subversion history is out there for you to harvest, if it is useful
to your study.

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