The commit size distribution of open source software

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Arafat, Oliver ^a   Riehle, Dirk ^a  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; OPEN SOURCES; POWER LAWS; REFACTORINGS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349093099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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