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An Empirical Study of the Dynamics of GitHub Repository and Its Impact on Distributed Software Development

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops (OTM 2014)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 8842))

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GitHub is a distributed code repository and project hosting web site. It is becoming one of the most popular web-based services to host both open-source projects and closed-source projects. In this paper, we review different kinds of version control systems and study the dynamics of GitHub, i.e., the ability and scalability of GitHub to process different requests and provide different services to different GitHub projects and GitHub users. Our study shows that GitHub could handle hundreds of thousands of requests a day for all the projects and thousands of requests for one project. This capability of GitHub makes it suitable for supporting distributed software development.

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  1. Computer Science and Informatics, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, USA

    Liguo Yu

  2. Department of Computer & Software Engineering, Atilim University, Incek, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra & Deepti Mishra

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  1. TU Graz, Rechbauerstraße 12, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  2. CRAN, University of Lorraine, Campus Sciences, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim Univeristy, Kızılcaşar Mh Mh, 06830, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

  4. Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  5. Dep. of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    António Lucas Soares

  6. SIGMA / LIG, Joseph Fourier University, 220 Rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Ioana Ciuciu

  7. Institute for Research on Population and Social, National Research Council, Policies, Via Palestro 32, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Fernando Ferri

  8. Dep. Business Informatics, Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Freistaedterstrasse 315, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Georg Weichhart

  9. STINA Business Solutions GmbH, Schottenfeldgasse 63/2, 1070, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Moser

  10. SAP Research, 805 avenue du Dr Donat, 06259, Sophia-Antipolis, Mougins, France

    Michele Bezzi

  11. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PQ806, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong,, China

    Henry Chan

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Yu, L., Mishra, A., Mishra, D. (2014). An Empirical Study of the Dynamics of GitHub Repository and Its Impact on Distributed Software Development. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_46

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