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Open-source projects are becoming more and more prevalent, and the number of contributors involved in open-source project development is increasing. The evolution of a project is driven by all contributors. However, the role of core contributors is more important, especially in evaluating the progress and discovering bottlenecks of the project, etc. Visualization technology can show distribution and intrinsic relationship of data visually and reduce the complexity of information analysis. And it’s appropriate to use different visualization methods in different research topics. The paper is based on common contribution behavioral indicators, such as adding code lines, submitting new files and solving a bug by committing, etc. We analyze the relationship between multiple indicators, measure the cooperation activities of the contributor, mine and analyze open-source projects on GitHub combining with a variety of visualization techniques, which reveals the core contributors in projects.
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Liu, X., Bai, J., Liu, L., Ouyang, H., Zhou, H., Xu, L. (2019). Mining Core Contributors in Open-Source Projects. In: Ni, W., Wang, X., Song, W., Li, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems and Applications. WISA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11817. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30952-7_70
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