Dear all, please find below a message I've received. It was sent to my apache address, which I barely use (but can easily be retrieved from my apache login). I'm just wondering whether this message might be a (very clever !) attempt at fishing. I don't think so, it does not have the usual flavour. Is it safe to answer? Has anyone else received such a message? Is there someone at Apache in charge of security which should be informed of this message?
Thanks for your answers, Sébastien ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yida Tao <[email protected]> Date: 2012/7/12 Subject: Help developers understand program changes -- Seeking your feedback To: [email protected] Dear Sébastien, This is Yida Tao, a PhD student of Computer Science and Engineering in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I’m currently working on a research project using Apache Commons Math as an evaluation subject. Our observation is that program changes (or commits) sometimes mix several issues together. For example, a single commit may actually fix three different bugs, or it may perform some refactorings, fix a minor bug and then implement a new feature. Such commit (we refer to it as the “composite change”) might reduce the change’s understandability and make the code review much harder. Therefore, our research goal is to automatically decompose a composite change into “slices”; each slice is aligned with one particular issue addressed. For example, if a change fixes three different bugs, we would like to see this change to be decomposed into three “slices”, each corresponds to one bug-fix. We would like to invite you to a short survey (around 5 - 10 minutes) on our research result. In particular, below is an example of applying our technique on one of your commits (revision 1210359 for Apache Commons Math). Our technique automatically decomposes your commit into 3 slices. You can view all the slices of the commit at http://webproject1.cse.ust.hk/ChangeSlicing/Survey/Math1210359.aspx We really appreciate it if you could let us know your opinions on the following two questions by replying this email: 1 Do you think the above example of slices is accurate? (Please assign a value from 0 to 4: 0 - Not accurate at all, 1 - Not accurate, 2 - Not sure, 3 - Accurate, 4 - Very accurate) 2 Do you think in general sliced changes (by our automatic change slicing technique) would be useful for other developers to review and understand your changes? (Please assign a value from 0 to 4: 0 - Not useful at all, 1 - Not useful, 2 - Not sure, 3 - Useful, 4 - Very useful) Thank you for your time! Your feedback is very valuable to us! Best Regards, Yida Tao PhD student Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Email: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
