GitHub Archive
All we have learned about software development by mining GitHub (plus some concerns)
Mining information on software projects hosted on GitHub can reveal a lot of useful information on how software projects (and the community behind them) should be managed to optimize your chances of success
30/5/2017
3
Over one million visitors for the site (even if it took me 7 years)
Some stats on what we have accomplished in these seven years online plus the five posts that got the most visits in one single day ever
3/6/2016
5
Should developers believe reports based on GitHub mining results?
Meta-analysis of 93 research papers reporting findings based on mining GitHub repositories. We report concerns on several aspects: dataset collection, replicability, sampling techniques and methodologies.
16/3/2016
11
Adoption of model-driven engineering in open source projects
First empirical study on the adoption of Eclipse-based modelling technologies in open-source projects on GitHub. Promising results!
25/1/2016
0
Glossary of modeling terms
Contribute to our glossary of software modeling / model-driven terms . You can do it through the github repostory created to support this effort.
3/1/2016
2
Popularity will NOT bring more contributions to your OSS project
What makes an open source software successful (in terms of commits, contributors,...)? I have no idea but this post explains one thing that will NOT work
17/8/2015
0
Measuring Openness in Open Source Projects
Openness level of an open source project can influence the enthusiasm of new developers to join a project. See three metrics to calculate the openness of OSS projects
24/9/2014
0
GiLA: Analyzing the use of issue labels in GitHub projects
What can issue labels teach you about your project? Three simple yet powerful visualizations to better understand WHO is doing WHAT
18/9/2014
0
The open source IFML editor for Eclipse in GitHub
Create your own IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language) diagrams thanks to our free Eclipse editor for IFML.
2/9/2014
0
Histogram of the number of commits in GitHub projects
Did you know that more than one milion GitHub projects have less than 10 commits? And that over 2M have basically zero external contributions?
1/7/2014
0
Usage of issue labels in GitHub: some facts
Which labels are most used in GitHub projects? Do projects use labels or just ignore them? Some facts based on the automatic analysis of GitHub projects
5/6/2014
1
85% of projects in Github have never been forked
We already discussed that releasing a tool as open source does not guarantee that people will
18/3/2014
9