Monitoring the health of an open source project : a case study

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McKellar, Jessica T
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Eric Grimson.
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Abstract
This thesis describes MOSHPIT, an open source project health monitoring tool that can be used to assess project health over time. The free and open source project Twisted is used as a case study in analyzing project health using MOSHPIT. This thesis also summarizes important metrics that are often observed informally or irregularly in open source projects but have never been published, and introduces novel metrics cultivated over the course of the author's experiences contributing to Twisted.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56).
 
Date issued
2010
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61174
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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