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On 2013-06-19 00:01, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> David Garcia, Marcelo Serrano Zanetti and Frank Schweitzer |
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> Chair of Systems Design – www.sg.ethz.ch – ETH Zurich |
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> = Abstract |
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> We analyze the relation between the emotions and the activity of |
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> contributors in the Open Source Software project Gentoo. Our case study |
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> builds on extensive data sets from the project’s bug tracking platform |
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> bugzilla, to quantify the activity of contributors, and its mail |
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> archives, to quantify the emotions of contributors by means of |
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> sentiment analysis. The Gentoo project is known for a considerable drop |
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> in development performance after the sudden retirement of a central |
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> contributor. We analyze how this event correlates with the negative |
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> emotions, both in bilateral email discussions with the central |
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> contributor, and at the level of the whole community of contributors. |
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> We then extend our study to consider the activity patters on Gentoo |
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> contributors in general. We find that contributors are more likely to |
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> become inactive when they express strong positive or negative emotions |
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> in the bug tracker, or when they deviate from the expected value of |
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> emotions in the mailing list. We use these insights to develop a |
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> Bayesian classifier that detects the risk of contributors leaving the |
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> project. Our analysis opens new perspectives for measuring online |
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> contributor motivation by means of sentiment analysis and for real-time |
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> predictions of contributor turnover in Open Source Software projects. |
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> http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3612 |
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> Merry reading, |
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> jer |
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So, there ya go. Start taking happy pills and be more positive and motivating! |
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Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Email : titanofold@g.o |
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