Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A case study of open source software development: the Apache server
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Group awareness in distributed software development
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Correlating Social Interactions to Release History during Software Evolution
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Open source software peer review practices: a case study of the apache server
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Talk and work: a preliminary report
Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories
Latent social structure in open source projects
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Tesseract: Interactive visual exploration of socio-technical relationships in software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Linking e-mails and source code artifacts
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
On the central role of mailing lists in open source projects: an exploratory study
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Case Study of Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets
WCRE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Non-essential changes in version histories
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Understanding broadcast based peer review on open source software projects
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Miler: a toolset for exploring email data
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Are popular classes more defect prone?
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
To talk or not to talk: factors that influence communication around changesets
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Facilitating enterprise software developer communication with CARES
ICSM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
How social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Open source software (OSS) development teams use electronic means, such as emails, instant messaging, or forums, to conduct open and public discussions. Researchers investigated mailing lists considering them as a hub for project communication. Prior work focused on specific aspects of emails, for example the handling of patches, traceability concerns, or social networks. This led to insights pertaining to the investigated aspects, but not to a comprehensive view of what developers communicate about. Our objective is to increase the understanding of development mailing lists communication. We quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed a sample of 506 email threads from the development mailing list of a major OSS project, Lucene. Our investigation reveals that implementation details are discussed only in about 35% of the threads, and that a range of other topics is discussed. Moreover, core developers participate in less than 75% of the threads. We observed that the development mailing list is not the main player in OSS project communication, as it also includes other channels such as the issue repository.