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WCRE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Who are Source Code Contributors and How do they Change?
—Determining who are the copyright owners of a software system is important as they are the individuals and organizations that license the software to its users, and ultimately t...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How power users help and hinder open bug reporting
Many power users that contribute to open source projects have no intention of becoming regular contributors; they just want a bug fixed or a feature implemented. How often do thes...
Andrew J. Ko, Parmit K. Chilana
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Creating and evolving developer documentation: understanding the decisions of open source contributors
Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries. To better understand how documentation in open source projects is created and maintained, we performed a q...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Martin P. Robil...
WCRE
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Do Code and Comments Co-Evolve? On the Relation between Source Code and Comment Changes
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
Beat Fluri, Michael Würsch, Harald Gall
USENIX
2004
13 years 5 months ago
How Xlib Is Implemented (and What We're Doing About It)
The X Window System is the de facto standard graphical environment for Linux and Unix hosts, and is usable on nearly any class of computer one could find today. Its success is par...
Jamey Sharp