Developing an h-index for OSS developers

2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2012-06-02 DOI:10.1109/MSR.2012.6224288

A. Capiluppi, Alexander Serebrenik, A. Youssef

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The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the “career advancement” of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way.

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为开源软件开发人员开发h指数

开源软件(OSS)存储库中可用的公共数据有许多实际用途:检测社区结构;确定开发人员中的关键角色;理解软件质量;预测大型OSS系统中的bug，等等;还要在一般的、非oss特定的软件工程方面制定和验证新的度量标准和概念证明。从对OSS存储库的分析中尚未出现的结果之一是如何帮助开发人员的“职业发展”:给定在OSS开发中使用的产品和过程的可用数据，应该有可能产生识别和描述开发人员的度量，这可以在外部用作识别和经验的度量。本文建立在学术环境中使用的h指数之上，h指数用于确定研究人员在同行中的认可度。通过为OSS(或任何)开发人员创建类似的索引，这项工作可以帮助定义一个基线，以客观、开放和可重复的方式度量和比较OSS开发人员的贡献。

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