Hi! El lun, 13-11-2006 a las 20:52 +0200, Juha Siltala escribió: > Hi Alvaro, > > I have also been working on understanding Free Software and the open > development model of working for some years, at the Center for > Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research[1] in Helsinki, > Finland. Most of my data consists of public data on the GNOME project > (mailing list archives, Bugzilla, lurking on well-known IRC channels, > etc.) We should definitely be in touch; some of my work may be of > interest to you already, and vice versa :) > Sure, the Free Software research community is growing and joining forces is always a good idea. > On 11/13/06, Alvaro del Castillo <acs gsyc escet urjc es> wrote: > > > - Mirroring GNOME CVS > MIght be very interesting to have access, but I've had no need for this, > > > - Access to the Bugzilla database > Bugzilla is public, and I've been able to get all the data I want. > Currently in GNOME Bugzilla you have more than 300.000 bugs. It is crazy to get the bugs using http queries and I don't think it is the way to go. We really need the full database to do our research (cleaning it of course from sensitive information). > > - Mailing list archives > These are available also, although the search has been broken for > quite some time now :( > Yes, we have analyzed them already. The mbox archives are wonderful for research purposes because the aren't filtered. > All in all, I've been quite happy with keeping all the data on the > famous Other People's Servers. I have had no desire to mirror this > data for my own research purposes. I reckon you want to conduct some > serious data mining for discovering some quantitative data which I > have had no need for. If so, all the better: your research could be > very interesting and complementary to our qualitative approach. > Yes, we need to analyze for example changes between commits (if possible all), the evolution of bugs (if possible all) in order to understand the evolution of code for example. > I will mail for you better description of my work so far in the next > few days, and if you wish, some results. > > [1] http://www.helsinki.fi/activity -- my personal page: > http://www.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala > Thank you very much. I think we can talk directly about our groups research issues. Thank you! -- http://acsblog.es
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