Análise de interação entre colaboradores em projeto de código aberto

Abstract

Software projects with open source are being increasingly used and gradually gaining employees. However, to succeed with such projects that have large scale are quite dependent on the efficiency of the interactions between the participants, the more centralized communication, the greater the likelihood of the project to destabilize. Based on that, the interactions among employees of such project must be analyzed, so it is able to do the project management effectively. Thus, this study aims to analyze the social network of the Rails project, one of the most popular open source projects on Github repository. The analysis used metrics to measure the modularity, in order to identify communities in the design, and the degree of centrality to identify collaborators more participatory. The results obtained in this work allow a better project management, greater dissemination of knowledge and possibility of success.