mario-fa wrote: > > We are studying behavior and characteristic about Open Source Software (OSS) > development using by reference “What can OSS mailing lists tell us? A > preliminary psychometric text analysis of the Apache developer mailing list > (Hassan , Rigby)” that used the Apache httpd server developer mailing list. > We need to know are major developer commit in the Project Apache HTTP Server > (4 developers) for to continue our study. Do you help us? Where do We can > find this information?
You might want to also pay attention to the fact that the committer is not necessarily the author, and that all commits don't qualify as development. Jim and myself might appear to write over half the code, but in fact we have handled much of the drudgery of releases and major refactorings such as updating copyright dates, correcting style errors, and these appear to be 'work', but they don't entirely represent development. Similarly, many of us commit (with svn log notes) contributions from non-committers, submitted to the bug tracking system or the mailing lists. In other words, those statistics are not useful as empirical data unless you plan to distinguish and classify all of the specific commits. All of the detailed Subversion history is out there for you to harvest, if it is useful to your study.
