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The influence of properties of open source projects on its popularity with developers
Marijn de Graaf
Popularity measures
• Number of contributors• Number of commits • Commits per contributor
Project measures
• License • Programming language• (compare with language popularities)
• (Quality) metrics• Comment percentage• (Many more)
• Size (LOC, mediating variable)• …
Plans
• First: many projects, few metrics• (statistical significance, available metrics)
• Second: less projects, more metrics
• Cause or effect: which increases first, metric or popularity?