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

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.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• McKellar, Jessica T

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Eric Grimson.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61174

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/61174