On the Popularity of Modern Open Source Software

This dataset contains the data analyzed on the paper:

Hudson Borges and Marco Tulio Valente. On the Popularity of Modern Open Source Software. Submitted to Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2018.

Files:

• cdf.csv: Cumulative distribution function data.
• contributos.csv: List of contributors of the repositories.
• developers_perceptions.csv: Survey of Developers' Perceptions on Growth Patterns.
• factors.[activity,owner,repository].csv: Additional information of the analyzed repositories and their owners.
• growth_patterns.zip: A compressed file containing the output of  the KSC algorithm (time series clusters).
• motivations_for_starring.csv:  Developers' motivations for starring projects.
• owners.csv: Information of the repositories' owners.
• releases.csv: Releases considered in the study (i.e., major and minor releases only).
• repositories.csv: Information of the analyzed repositories (e.g., stars, forks, owner, creation date, etc.).
• timeseries.json: File containing the number of stars gained by week for each repository since their creation.