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How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives

How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives

Megan Squire
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 23
ISSN: 1942-3926|EISSN: 1942-3934|EISBN13: 9781466613775|DOI: 10.4018/jossp.2012010103
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Squire, Megan. "How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives." IJOSSP vol.4, no.1 2012: pp.37-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jossp.2012010103

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Squire, M. (2012). How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives. International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP), 4(1), 37-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jossp.2012010103

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Squire, Megan. "How the FLOSS Research Community Uses Email Archives," International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) 4, no.1: 37-59. http://doi.org/10.4018/jossp.2012010103

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Abstract

Artifacts of the software development process, such as source code or emails between developers, are a frequent object of study in empirical software engineering literature. One of the hallmarks of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects is that the artifacts of the development process are publicly-accessible and therefore easily collected and studied. Thus, there is a long history in the FLOSS research community of using these artifacts to gain understanding about the phenomenon of open source software, which could then be compared to studies of software engineering more generally. This paper looks specifically at how the FLOSS research community has used email artifacts from free and open source projects. It provides a classification of the relevant literature using a publicly-available online repository of papers about FLOSS development using email. The outcome of this paper is to provide a broad overview for the software engineering and FLOSS research communities of how other researchers have used FLOSS email message artifacts in their work.

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