Abstract. FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) distributions use dependencies and package managers to maintain huge collections of packages and their installations; recent research...
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Free and open source software is more and more used for software developments on UNIX systems. We are proposing a solution to control the deployment of free software in the context...
Laurent Charles, Manuel Vacelet, Mohamed Chaari, M...
In large projects, software developers struggle with two sources of complexity ? the complexity of the code itself, and the complexity of the process of producing it. Both of thes...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...