Mining Challenge 2010: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu

In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus in order to explore and discover the breadth of MSR research, the MSR community has banded together behind the MSR Mining Challenge. The mining challenge allows researchers to demonstrate current working techniques against a common set of repositories or datasets with the express purpose of mining interesting facts from these datasets and then comparing these results against the results from other researchers. This year, 2010, the MSR Mining Challenge has expanded the size of its underlying dataset to include the version control, bug tracker, and mailinglists of the following software distributions and projects: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu. Researchers are asked to look beyond the boundaries of a project and investigate the relationship between the evolution of various programs contained within these software ecosystems. 9 general challenge submissions were submitted, 6 were accepted with a 66% acceptance rate.

[1]  Daniel M. Germán,et al.  Perspectives on bugs in the Debian bug tracking system , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).

[2]  Gregorio Robles,et al.  Remote analysis and measurement of libre software systems by means of the CVSAnalY tool , 2004, ICSE 2004.

[3]  Christoph Treude,et al.  A comparative exploration of FreeBSD bug lifetimes , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).

[4]  Andy Zaidman,et al.  Assessment of issue handling efficiency , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).

[5]  Ahmed E. Hassan,et al.  Mining Software Repositories to Assist Developers and Support Managers , 2006, 2006 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance.

[6]  Yue Jia,et al.  Cloning and copying between GNOME projects , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).

[7]  Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar,et al.  FLOSSMetrics: Free/Libre/Open Source Software Metrics , 2009, 2009 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering.

[8]  Michael W. Godfrey,et al.  Reading beside the lines: Using indentation to rank revisions by complexity , 2009, Sci. Comput. Program..

[9]  Thomas Grechenig,et al.  Mining security changes in FreeBSD , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).

[10]  Katsuro Inoue,et al.  Finding file clones in FreeBSD Ports Collection , 2010, 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010).