missaugustina
commented
7 years ago See Issue #66
Our Needs:
- Interviews to understand the role of CI - need to be able to contact contributors
- Focus on current CI technology rather than historical - eg, services like TravisCI
- Historical analysis - what changed when CI was introduced?
- Future predictions - what do we expect to change when a project uses CI?
- Project outreach for BonnyCI - What CI value does BonnyCI provide? Who is most likely to benefit?
Repo Characteristics:
- Currently active
- Have (or want) a user base
- Do releases (or want to)
- Have (or want) more than one active developer
- A mix of mature (have history) and new
Data Requirements:
- Timestamped data and ability to search and filter based on this
- Usernames of end users (eg, username, downloads, bug authors, who cares about the repo)
- Release information (eg, version number, tag)
- Contribution information (eg, username, commits, documentation, bug comments)
- Repository metadata (eg, age, summary of activity per time period)
For our evaluation, we'll need to pull a large sample from the Github Archive. We will only be interested in studying a sub-sample of this data. The point of this issue is to establish the specific parameters for the sub-sample we want to study.