Small world characteristics of FLOSS distributions
Boender, Jaap and Fernandes, Sara (2014) Small world characteristics of FLOSS distributions. In: Software Engineering and Formal Methods : SEFM 2013 Collocated Workshops: BEAT2, WS-FMDS, FM-RAIL-Bok, MoKMaSD, and OpenCert, Madrid, Spain, September 23-24, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Counsell, Steve and Núñez, Manuel, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer International Publishing, pp. 417-429. ISBN 9783319050317. [Book Section]
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Abstract
Over the years, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) distributions have become more and more complex and recent versions contain tens of thousands of packages. This has made it impossible to do quality control by hand. Instead, distribution editors must look to automated methods to ensure the quality of their distributions.
In the present paper, we present some insights into the general structure of FLOSS distributions. We notably show that such distributions have the characteristics of a small world network: there are only a few important packages, and many less important packages. Identifying the important packages can help editors focus their efforts on parts of the distribution where errors will have important consequences.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Foundations of Computing group A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence group |
| Item ID: | 13752 |
| Notes on copyright: | Publisher requires full text of accepted version be embargoed until 12 months after publication. |
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| Depositing User: | Jaap Boender |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2014 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 23:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/13752 |
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