The document discusses a research project called QUALGEN that aims to model and analyze the quality of evolving software systems. It develops a quality metamodel called MoCQA to generate customized quality models for software distributions like Ubuntu and Debian. The research methodology involves iteratively structuring a quality hypothesis hierarchy, defining metrics, and validating the candidate quality models. Future work includes validating the models on Debian/Ubuntu and generalizing to other software distributions, along with tool support for quality model generation and analysis.