Models of OSS project meta-information: A dataset of three forges

James R. Williams; Davide Di Ruscio; Nicholas Matragkas; Juri Di Rocco; Dimitrios S. Kolovos

doi:10.1145/2597073.2597132

Models of OSS project meta-information: A dataset of three forges

James R. Williams, Davide Di Ruscio, Nicholas Matragkas, Juri Di Rocco, Dimitrios S. Kolovos

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The process of selecting open-source software (OSS) for adoption is not straightforward as it involves exploring various sources of information to determine the quality, maturity, activity, and user support of each project. In the context of the OSSMETER project, we have developed a forge-agnostic metamodel that captures the meta-information common to all OSS projects. We specialise this metamodel for popular OSS forges in order to capture forge-specific meta-information. In this paper we present a dataset conforming to these meta-models for over 500,000 OSS projects hosted on three popular OSS forges: Eclipse, SourceForge, and GitHub. The dataset enables different kinds of automatic analysis and supports objective comparisons of cross-forge OSS alternatives with respect to a user's needs and quality requirements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings
Publisher	ACM
Pages	408-411
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450328630
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597132
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2014
Event	11th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Hyderabad, India Duration: 31 May 2014 → 1 Jun 2014

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Name	11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings

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Conference	11th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014
Country/Territory	India
City	Hyderabad
Period	31/05/14 → 1/06/14

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Williams, J. R., Di Ruscio, D., Matragkas, N., Di Rocco, J., & Kolovos, D. S. (2014). Models of OSS project meta-information: A dataset of three forges. In 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings (pp. 408-411). (11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597132

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Williams, JR, Di Ruscio, D, Matragkas, N, Di Rocco, J & Kolovos, DS 2014, Models of OSS project meta-information: A dataset of three forges. in 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings. 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014 - Proceedings, ACM, pp. 408-411, 11th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2014, Hyderabad, India, 31/05/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597132

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