6 Things to Know about Successful Open Source Projects

FLOSSmole and SRDA data were used in Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons by Charlie Schweik and Bob English, and now PBS.org ran a story summarizing key findings from the book. If you haven't read it yet, do it!

Two new data sets

Hi moles! I've got two new datasets for you to play with. These aren't perfect, but they're a start of a new type of dataset for FLOSSmole!

(1) Apache Roles: This dataset stores information about people affiliated with all the subprojects of the Apache Software Foundation, their roles, and what project they're working on with that role. Data sources include: Apache web site pages, board meeting minutes, etc. (Pre-Print on FLOSShub describing collection, curation, storage, sample queries)

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FLOSSdata move is complete

Hello moles! I have completed the move of all our data from the Teragrid over to FLOSSdata and it is ready to go.

There are some new things to know:

1. New schemas for 'old', 'sf' and 'udd' data. You're used to seeing those in the 'ossmole_merged' schema, but they've been moved out into their own schemas.

2. Reminder that the 'sf' data is quite old and we recommend that you use SRDA instead.

3. There are some new tables coming for Apache data. More information on these will be forthcoming.

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New MySQL user accounts

Hi moles,

This message is for those of you who are actively using direct database access on the MySQL server at Teragrid/SDSC.

Our direct access database is being moved off Teragrid at SDSC and onto our own servers at flossdata.syr.edu.

To accomplish this move, I'm going to need to re-create our active user accounts on MySQL.

(This is a good opportunity to clean house anyway since there were a number of user accounts on there for people who have moved on or are no longer active.)

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Google Code data released for Nov 2012

The datasource ID is 350, and we've got a fresh run of Google Code project names, thanks to Audris. Also the People collector is fixed up now, so we're getting both the userid and the user name if available. So note the new column in the people table.

Go here to get the data files

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November 2012 data released

The November 2012 data has been released to Google Code. Go get it!

Note: we are in the process of copying from the Teragrid, so we will not be putting any more data up there for the time being. More details on direct database access will be forthcoming.

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september Launchpad data is released

Huge thank you to our former student and flossmole alumnus Christian Funkhouser for working on re-writing the Launchpad collector to use the API.

Get the code!

The datasource_id for Launchpad in September is 342!

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September 2012 data released

Data files have been released for September 2012. Go check it out on our Google Code downloads page or sign up for direct database access.

Special release notes:
--The Google Code, Github, and Launchpad collections are not included this month.
--Alioth is back, and Tigris is back, including emails.

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August 2012 data released

Data files have been released for August 2012. Go check it out on our Google Code downloads page or sign up for direct database access.

Special release notes:
--The Google Code, Github, and Launchpad collections are not included this month.

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Freecode New Project Registrations (1998-2011) and language tags

This chart shows the new project registrations for each year 1998-2011, and what programming language those projects were tagged with.

For example, 2003 was the highest year for new "C" projects to be registered with Freecode (then called Freshmeat).

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