Open-source software projects have become an integral part of our daily life, supporting
virtually every software we use today. Since open-source software forms the digital …

Background After many years of research on software repositories, the knowledge for
building mature, reusable tools that perform data retrieval, storage and basic analytics is …

In recent years, empirical studies on software engineering practices have primarily relied on
general-purpose social coding platforms such as GITHUB or GITLAB. With the emergence of …

Software teams are under continuous pressure to work effectively and achieve a high bar of
performance. The data contained within software development lifecycle tools presents the …

The Software Heritage project is a software archive containing the largest public collection of
source code files along with their development history, in the form of an immense graph of …

Source code analysis tools are designed to analyze code artifacts with different intents,
which span from improving the quality and security of the software to easing refactoring and …

A critical issue faced by open-source software projects is the risk of key personnel leaving
the project. This risk is exacerbated in large projects that have been under development for …

The network of collaborations in an open source project can reveal relevant emergent
properties that influence its prospects of success. In this work, we analyze open source …

Currently, GIT repositories analysis tools play an important role in all software development
teams, as they allow a detailed analysis of the interaction of all team members. It is important …

Abstract Besides the Open Source approach for software, there is a steadily growing
adoption of the Inner Source concept for projects in the software development domain. Inner …