Best to include Storm's dev email distribution in your question. On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I'm a researcher studying software evolution. As part of my current > research, I'm studying the implications of open-sourcing a proprietary > software, for instance, if the project succeed in attracting newcomers. > Storm was in my list. > > To further analyze the impacts of Stom's migration, we analyzed the git > log commit history of your project in terms of number of contributions, > number of newcomers and number of contributors per month. The following > figure presents a temporal perspective regarding these three measures. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Given the numbers presented in the graphic, we would like to ask Storm > developers the following questions: > > 1. What motivated the project to open its source code at Github? How do > you evaluate the benefits of this migration? > 2. Does this snapshot make sense? Did you find any inconsistency on the > data? > 3. Do you have any internal policy to promote/attract/retain newcomers? If > so, do them succeed? > 4. There is a decrease on the number of newcomers and contributions > between 2012 and 2014. Do you have any explanation for that? > 5. Similarly, why the number of newcomers and contributors increased that > much after 2014? > > Thanks in advance for your collaboration, > > Gustavo Pinto, PhD > http://www.gustavopinto.org >
