Evolution patterns of open-source software systems and communities

By Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Nishinaka, Kouichi Kishida, Yunwen Ye. International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, 2002

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