very good idea !! i'll try to contribute (not as a jackrabbit core developer but as a jackrabbit library heavy user)
2010/5/26 Alberto Bacchelli <[email protected]> > Dear Jackrabbit developers, > > I'm Alberto Bacchelli, a Ph.D. student in software engineering. > > We want to help new developers who join a new software system, and > we believe that a good first impression would attract more contributors. > > Imagine a new developer joining Jackrabbit: > As a first step, he needs a high-level view of the system. > Then, and this is what we want to address, he needs to know > what the most important classes of the system are --the hotspots. > > > We'd like to find *automated* methods to suggest a newbie > which classes he should start to study/understand. > > > To find the best recommendation method, we must know > the important classes of the system, and you, > as the system developers, are the only ones who can > answer this question. > > If you agree to do so (and I really hope so :) ) > we will create a small questionnaire for you, > that will take less than 15 minutes to be completed. > > Thank you very much for reading this e-mail. > Please, reply to this thread or send me an e-mail > if you want to participate, and/or give me feedback. > > Cheers, > Alberto > > > PS: Since we want our work to respect the free software philosophy, > if you agree, we would make all your answers public (anonymyzed if you > wish) > as a benchmark, so that other researchers can use your answers to propose > even better techniques for this task. > -- Jose Hernandez 675599600 Isthari http://www.isthari.com
