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This paper is a report on the working group discussion on the potential of open source systems as project repositories for empirical studies. The discussions of this working group focused more generally on the typical questions that can be answered using the open source data, the challenging issues that can be addressed in future, and a discussion on the results to date.
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Nagappan, N. (2007). Potential of Open Source Systems as Project Repositories for Empirical Studies Working Group Results . In: Basili, V.R., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., Selby, R.W. (eds) Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71301-2_29
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