Who? Where? What? Examining distributed development in two large open source projects

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 237-246

  Bird, Christian ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTION LEVELS; FIREFOX; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; INTERNET USAGE; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84865148377     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2012.6224286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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