Maispion:
Analysing and Visualising Open Source
Software Developer Communities
François Stephany Tudor Girba Tom Mens

Software Development

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Understand
the dynamics and the organisation
of an open source community

Mailing lists
Pervasive
Persistent
Many important decisions are taken
in mailing lists

Version Control
Jacques
Hercules
Update
Kimberley Commit
Repository

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1 * 1 1 * Repository 1
EmailUser UserIdentity
User
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CVS Subversion

Moose Drupal Python
• Smalltalk • PHP • C
• Store • CVS • CVS/SVN
• 2422 e-mails • 32729 e-mails • 88660 e-mails
• 65768 commits • 33594 commits • 65768 commits
• 227 committers • 8 core-committers • 172 committers

Demo

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