Entering the circle of trust: Developer initiation as committers in open-source projects

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 133-142

  Sinha, Vibha Singhal ^a   Mani, Senthil ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

code committer; developer roles; mining bug repository; mining code repository; open source software

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; CODE COMMITTER; DEVELOPER ROLES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KEY FACTORS; MINING CODE REPOSITORY; MINING CODES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES;

EID: 79959212403     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985441.1985462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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