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Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor:
 Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:57:03 +0000
> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 1 March 2013 16:47, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> We have been analysed!
>> >>
>> >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7191
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>      jer
>> >>
>> >
>> > As a relative newbie, I have to ask: Who is this "central
>> > contributor" that the paper refers to?
>> >
>>
>> Maybe Daniel Robbins? I haven't read it yet though.
>
> No, the "central contributor" was what Gentoo would term a "bug
> wrangler", and the performance metrics given are related to how bugs are
> handled. The paper shows that there is a correlation between running
> various graph metrics on bugzilla, and who is doing the bug wrangling.
> It's not looking at commits, changes, delivered features or anything
> like that.
>

That's the gist I got as well, and that answers my question. Thanks.