Week 5 Status

Team Summary

This week Richard finished up implementing the time to ownership metric as well as averages for release filepath. He’s starting to work on writing the code for analysis of that data. Brian has been working, as usual, on NLP. This week he increased performance of developer vocab generation and removed comments as a source of vocab generation, since the data is duplicated in the messages. I finished up the interactive churn loader and continued to work with Samantha.

Exciting new area of research

Professor Meneely has given Samantha and me the task of doing social network analysis on Chromium. We’re planning to use a Python library, Networkx, to build graph structures of the developer network. We’re planning to connect participants on a code review to make connections between developers, that way we will be able to see who is working with whom. Right now my tasks are to understand what sort of questions we can ask given a graph of developers and to work with same to write the code for graph creation. There are a lot of interesting questions to be asked here and I can’t wait to jump into these tasks.

This project is sponsored by the Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates, funded by the National Science Foundation.