README.md

Creation of the list of core developers

Core developers are defined as those authoring 80% of a project's code base

Step 1

Clones a git repo locally and extract commits statistics.

Run LocalNonDocCommitExtractor.py <repo-url>

• Input: list of GitHub repository urls
• Output: A80*_results/repo/commits.csv, A80*_results/repo/Cstats.csv
• Example: python LocalNonDocCommitExtractor.py ../Resources/repositories.txt

Step 2

Refer to this (README | CommitExtractor) file and execute CommitExtractor.py. At the end of the execution proceed with step 3 below

Step 3

Extract commit author information (id;name;email;login;commits).

Run LoginIdentifier.py

• Requires: A80_results//Cstats.csv, text file with the list of GitHub repositories to analyze
• Output: A80_results//login_map.csv
• Example: python LoginIdentifier.py

Step 4

Find aliases among committers.

Run UnmaskAliases.py

• Requires: A80_results//login_map.csv, text file with the list of GitHub repositories to analyze
• Output: A80_results//unmasking_results.csv
• Example: python UnmaskAliases.py

Step 5

Obtain the list of core developers.

Run GetA80Lists.py

• Requires: A80_results//unmasking_results.csv
• Output: A80_devs.csv
• Example: python GetA80Lists.py