<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luis Lopez-Fernandez</style></author><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%">Applying Social Network Analysis Techniques to Community-driven Libre Software Projects</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">community-driven development</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mining software repositories</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social networks analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">software understanding</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2006</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=34562</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Resources Management Association</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27–48</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Source code management repositories of large, long-lived libre (free, open source) software projects can be a source of valuable data about the organizational structure, evolution, and knowledge exchange in the corresponding development communities. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of the available information renders it almost unusable without applying methodologies which highlight the relevant information for a given aspect of the project. Such methodology is proposed in this article, based on well known concepts from the social networks analysis field, which can be used to study the relationships among developers and how they collaborate in different parts of a project. It is also applied to data mined from some well known projects (Apache, GNOME, and KDE), focusing on the characterization of their collaboration network architecture. These cases help to understand the potentials of the methodology and how it is applied, but also shows some relevant results which open new paths in the understanding of the informal organization of libre software development communities.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue></record></records></xml>