Cooperation in Open Source Developement. An Empirical Study of the Debian Project.
Text
- Full text of the thesis in german: liz debian.pdf
- Bibliography as BibTex File: liz.bib
- LaTex source code of the thesis including all axuilliary files (includes PDF version and bibliography):liz debian text.zip
Presentation at Debconf 9
- Video recording: high quality (672M), low quality (111M)
- Presentation slides: presentation-debconf9.pdf
Datasets
For the statistical analysis I prepared several datasets out of an PostgreSQL database.
- Data set about all bugs, bug submitters and bug fixers: bugtime.RData
- Activity of contributors by months and by "activity periods": activity months.csv, activity periods.csv
- An SQL dump (anonymized) of the whole database is available on request. It's a bit too large (250Mb) to just put it on this website.
- A version of the bug dataset including all statistical analysis results is also available on request (550Mb).
Scripts
Data Gathering
All the scripts used for data gathering and preparation are written in Python. They are Free Software licensed under the General Public License (GPL). The source tarball includes a README file with further documentation.
Statistical Analysis
coming soon