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Development

• source code is available using Git: git clone https://salsa.debian.org/qa/debsources.git or git clone [email protected]:qa/debsources.git and browsable on the Web
• please report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System (short URL: http://deb.li/debsrcbugs), against the qa.debian.org pseudo-package, using a subject line that begins with "debsources:".
  If you use the standard Debian reportbug tool, please use the command line: reportbug -P "User: [email protected]" -P "Usertags: debsources" qa.debian.org
• for discussions about Debsources please contact the debian-qa-debsources mailing list or the #debian-debsources IRC channel on OFTC
• opportunities for new contributors (AKA easy hacks) are available as well (short URL: http://deb.li/debsrceasy)

Acknowledgements

• all Debsources contributors for their work
• for sponsoring the initial development of Debsources and providing hardware and hosting for the first 6 years of its history

Thank you!

Publications

1. [.pdf] [.bib] Matthieu Caneill, Daniel M. Germán, Stefano Zacchiroli. The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Free and Open Source Software. In Empirical Software Engineering, Volume 22, pp. 1405-1437, Springer. DOI 10.1007/s10664-016-9461-5.
   If you use the Debsources dataset for research purposes, we would appreciate you cite this paper.
   Note: this is the most up-to-date and complete paper about Debsources.
2. [.pdf] [.bib] Stefano Zacchiroli. The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Debian Source Code Metadata. In proceedings of MSR 2015: The 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 466-469, IEEE 2015. DOI 10.1109/MSR.2015.65.
3. [.pdf] [.bib] Matthieu Caneill, Stefano Zacchiroli. Debsources: Live and Historical Views on Macro-Level Software Evolution. In proceedings of ESEM 2014: 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. ACM 2014. DOI 10.1145/2652524.2652528.
   If you use the Debsources software for research purposes, we would appreciate you cite this paper.