Mining email social networks in Postgres

Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan
2006 Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories - MSR '06  
Open Source Software (OSS) projects provide a unique opportunity to gather and analyze publicly available historical data. The Postgres SQL server, for example, has over seven years of recorded development and communication activity. We mined data from both the source code repository and the mailing list archives to examine the relationship between communication and development in Postgres. Along the way, we had to deal with the difficult challenge of resolving email aliases. We used a number
more » ... social network analysis measures and statistical techniques to analyze this data. We present our findings in this paper.
doi:10.1145/1137983.1138033 dblp:conf/msr/BirdGDGS06a fatcat:segdegpdjvahpje5ggl7wadlgi