Fat tails, long memory, maturity and ageing in open-source software projects
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Challet, Damien
Institute for Scientifc Interchange (ISI), Torino, Italy - Physics department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Valverde, Sergi
ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain - Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, CNRS-UMR, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
English
We report activity data analysis on several open source software projects, focusing on time between modifications and on the number of files modified at once. Both have fat-tailed distributions, long-term memory, and display systematic non-trivial cross-correlations, suggesting that quiet periods are followed by cascading modifications. In addition the maturity of a software project can be... Show more…
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Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Department
- Département de Physique
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Physics
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300597