Communication & Co-ordination activities are central to
large software projects, but are difficult to observe and study
in traditional (closed-source, commercial) settings because
of the prevalence of informal, direct communication modes.
OSS projects, on the other hand, use the internet as the
communication medium, and typically conduct discussions
in an open, public manner. As a result, the email archives
of OSS projects provide a useful trace of the communication
and co-ordination activities of the participants. However,
there are various challenges that must be addressed
before this data can be effectively mined. Once this is done,
we can construct social networks of email correspondents,
and begin to address some interesting questions. These include
questions relating to participation in the email; the
social status of different types of OSS participants; the relationship
of email activity and commit activity (in the CVS
repositories) and the relationship of social status with commit
activity. In this paper, we begin with a discussion of
our infrastructure and then discuss our approach to mining
the email archives; and finally we present some preliminary
results from our data analysis.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 bird06
%A Bird, Christian
%A Gourley, Alex
%A Devanbu, Premkumar T.
%A Gertz, Michael
%A Swaminathan, Anand
%B ICSE 2006 Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2006)
%C Shanghai, China
%D 2006
%K mining social software
%T Mining Email Social Networks
%U http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/msr06.pdf
%X Communication & Co-ordination activities are central to
large software projects, but are difficult to observe and study
in traditional (closed-source, commercial) settings because
of the prevalence of informal, direct communication modes.
OSS projects, on the other hand, use the internet as the
communication medium, and typically conduct discussions
in an open, public manner. As a result, the email archives
of OSS projects provide a useful trace of the communication
and co-ordination activities of the participants. However,
there are various challenges that must be addressed
before this data can be effectively mined. Once this is done,
we can construct social networks of email correspondents,
and begin to address some interesting questions. These include
questions relating to participation in the email; the
social status of different types of OSS participants; the relationship
of email activity and commit activity (in the CVS
repositories) and the relationship of social status with commit
activity. In this paper, we begin with a discussion of
our infrastructure and then discuss our approach to mining
the email archives; and finally we present some preliminary
results from our data analysis.
@inproceedings{bird06,
abstract = {Communication & Co-ordination activities are central to
large software projects, but are difficult to observe and study
in traditional (closed-source, commercial) settings because
of the prevalence of informal, direct communication modes.
OSS projects, on the other hand, use the internet as the
communication medium, and typically conduct discussions
in an open, public manner. As a result, the email archives
of OSS projects provide a useful trace of the communication
and co-ordination activities of the participants. However,
there are various challenges that must be addressed
before this data can be effectively mined. Once this is done,
we can construct social networks of email correspondents,
and begin to address some interesting questions. These include
questions relating to participation in the email; the
social status of different types of OSS participants; the relationship
of email activity and commit activity (in the CVS
repositories) and the relationship of social status with commit
activity. In this paper, we begin with a discussion of
our infrastructure and then discuss our approach to mining
the email archives; and finally we present some preliminary
results from our data analysis.},
added-at = {2007-04-30T19:44:21.000+0200},
address = {Shanghai, China},
author = {Bird, Christian and Gourley, Alex and Devanbu, Premkumar T. and Gertz, Michael and Swaminathan, Anand},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f7836cb14809d9aa4c951eaa9dc80971/neilernst},
booktitle = {ICSE 2006 Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2006) },
day = {22-23},
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intrahash = {f7836cb14809d9aa4c951eaa9dc80971},
keywords = {mining social software},
month = May,
timestamp = {2007-12-19T21:30:39.000+0100},
title = {Mining Email Social Networks},
url = {http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/msr06.pdf},
year = 2006
}