Maispion: A Tool for Analysing and Visualising Open Source Software Developer Communities

[en] We present Maispion, a tool for analysing software developer communities. The tool, developed in Smalltalk, mines mailing list and version repositories, and provides visualisa- tions to provide insights into the ecosystem of open source software (OSS) development. We show how Maispion can analyze the history of medium to large OSS communities, by applying our tool to three well-known open source projects: Moose, Drupal and Python.

Disciplines :

Computer science
Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Stephany, Francois

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Gîrba, Tudor

Language :

English

Title :

Maispion: A Tool for Analysing and Visualising Open Source Software Developer Communities

Publication date :

01 January 2010

Event name :

Int''l Workshop Smalltalk Tools

Event place :

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

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