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Open Source Is a Continual Bugfixing by a Few

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Github is one of the most popular repository sites. It is a place where contributors come together to share code, ideas, thoughts and report issues. By using topic modelling applied to comments we are able to mine plentiful interesting information. Three aspects of an open source project mostly attracted our attention: the existence of a ”Core Team’” - small number of developers that have the most contributions, the prevailing popularity of topics related to bug fixing and the continuous development of project without significant iteration phases.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

    Mikołaj Fejzer, Michał Wojtyna, Marta Burzańska, Piotr Wiśniewski & Krzysztof Stencel

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  2. EECS Department, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA

    Goce Trajcevski

  3. Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje, Rugjer Boshkovikj 16, 1000, Skopje, Macedonia

    Margita Kon-Popovska

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Fejzer, M., Wojtyna, M., Burzańska, M., Wiśniewski, P., Stencel, K. (2014). Open Source Is a Continual Bugfixing by a Few. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Trajcevski, G., Kon-Popovska, M. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10933-6_12

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