Open gustavopinto opened 8 years ago
hi @TravisCarden, do you have any comments?
Hello, @gustavopinto. The commit you refer to was made long before I had any relationship to the project. I'm not qualified to comment on the decisions of those who preceded me, and as I'm no longer active, I'm not personally authorized to answer your other questions. Sorry!
Hi there,
I'm a researcher studying software evolution. As part of my current research, I'm studying the implications of open-sourcing a proprietary software, for instance, if the project succeed in attracting newcomers. However, I observed that some projects, like petitions, deleted their software history when transitioning to open-source.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petitions/commit/5733575c4fe85c9f8ea0a7db9fa38d3f2d339fc0
Knowing that software history is indispensable for developers (e.g., developers need to refer to history several times a day), I would like to ask petitions developers the following four brief questions:
Thanks in advance for your collaboration,
Gustavo Pinto, PhD http://www.gustavopinto.org