A Reminder : A Study on Free/Open Source Software

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Robert Knight wrote:
> Other questions ask for fairly specific metrics ( such as % change
> from release to release, types of defects recorded etc. ).  I do not
> think that there is much data available on that for many free software
> projects at present, certainly not for the many small projects in
> existence.  The source data to produce these metrics exists in many
> cases ( often provided by analysing logs from the version control
> system or looking at bugzilla data ) but the work of actually
> analysing and summarising that data has not been done, because it is a
> slightly tedious task and tends to get overlooked in favour of more
> enjoyable ones.

Research projects suce as FLOSSmole, FLOSSmetrics and SQO-OSS intend to answer 
that in a broad way through automated analysis.

-- 
These are your friends - Adem
    GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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