<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gregorio Robles</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Israel Herraiz</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evolution of the Core Team of Developers in Libre Software Projects</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">06/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2009/</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vancouver, Canada</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">167–170</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-1-4244-3493-0</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the &quot;core team&quot;. The stability and permanence of this group of most active developers is of great importance for the evolution and sustainability of the project. In this position paper we propose a quantitative methodology to study the evolution of core teams by analyzing information from source code management repositories. The most active developers in different periods are identified, and their activity is calculated over time, looking for core team evolution patterns.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This work has been funded in part by the European Commission, through projects FLOSSMetrics, FP6-IST-5-033982, QUALOSS, FP6-IST-5-033547, and Qualipso, FP6-IST-034763, and by the Spanish CICyT, project SobreSalto (TIN2007-66172).</style></notes></record></records></xml>