An Analysis of the Evolution of Developers′Role in Open-Source Software Community
Wang Wen-jua · Fuza xitong yu fuzaxing kexue · 2015
In this paper,we collect developers′logs and mailing list information of 10 versions from Tomcat 6 during the time ranges from 2006 to 2010.Then we perform an evolution analysis on developers′activities.According to the trend of developers′activities,we extract typical evolutional patterns.Finally,a comparison between developers′contribution to the specific work and different evolution patterns is made.The results show that five typical evolution patterns exist in the developers network and those developers under different evolution patterns engage different work.