I have received messages like that in the past. I just don't answer them. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Sébastien Brisard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
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