List of Tools

pyTernity

• URL: http://tools.libresoft.es/pyternity
• Author: Diego Barceló <dibarman at gsyc.escet.urjc.es>, Gregorio Robles <grex at gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
• Description: pyTernity is a statistical analysis tool for building and analyzing distributions of ownership/contribution data from software source packages primarily designed to study the patterns in contributions from developers working on libre software projects.
• Technologies: Python, MySQL.
• Execution mode:
  • Edit: config.py to configure pyTernity
  • Run:
    • python pyTernity.py
    • python pyTernity_cleaning.py
    • python pyTernity_copyright_distribution.py
• Input data: Source files of projects packed in tarballs or uncompressed into directories.
• Output data: A database with the information of the disctinct analyzed projects.
• Technology limitation:
  • Could be dupplicated information if the program is rerunning and the database is not deleted.
  • Some authors could not be neither detected nor classified by the application.
  • Dangerous application (could delete directories if the configuration is not set properly)
  • Unreadable code (with some bugs)
• Maturity: unstable.
• Dependencies: python, mysql, nilsimsa, sloccount.
• Documentation:
  • https://svn.forge.morfeo-project.org/svn/libresoft-tools/pyternity/trunk/README (need to be improved)
  • libresoft-tools-devel
• License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Metrics:
  • Distributions of ownership/contribution data from software source packages.
  • Patterns in contributions from developers.