What Are the Dominant Projects in the GitHub Python Ecosystem?

2016 Third International Conference on Trustworthy Systems and their Applications (TSA) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI:10.1109/TSA.2016.23

Wanwangying Ma, Lin Chen, Yuming Zhou, Baowen Xu

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GitHub, a popular social-software-development platform, has fostered a variety of software ecosystems where projects depend on one another and co-evolve together. The projects located in the central hub of the ecosystem are supposed to be important and could affect a number of other projects. However, few researches have investigated the dominant projects in a software ecosystem. In this study, we aim to identify the most influential projects in the GitHub Python ecosystem. We first construct the GitHub Python ecosystem with 19797 projects by identifying their inter-dependencies. Then, we calculate the four kinds of centrality metrics to measure the centrality and influence of each project in the ecosystem. Finally, we evaluate the project's popularity using GitHub social methods and compare the consistency of the two measurements. Our results indicate that 1) the most influential projects are mostly custom libraries; 2) only a small number of projects have large values of the centrality metrics; 3) the dominant projects are not always popular among the GitHub users. Our results help the researchers and practitioners gain a better understanding of the GitHub Python ecosystem.

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什么是GitHub Python生态系统中的主导项目?

GitHub是一个受欢迎的社交软件开发平台，它培育了各种各样的软件生态系统，在这些生态系统中，项目相互依赖，共同发展。位于生态系统中心枢纽的项目应该是重要的，可能会影响许多其他项目。然而，很少有研究调查了软件生态系统中的主导项目。在这项研究中，我们的目标是确定GitHub Python生态系统中最具影响力的项目。我们首先通过确定19797个项目的相互依赖关系来构建GitHub Python生态系统。然后，我们计算了四种中心性指标来衡量生态系统中每个项目的中心性和影响力。最后，我们使用GitHub社交方法评估项目的受欢迎程度，并比较两种测量方法的一致性。结果表明:1)最具影响力的项目多为自定义库;2)只有少数项目的中心性指标值较大;3)主导项目并不总是受GitHub用户的欢迎。我们的研究结果有助于研究人员和从业者更好地了解GitHub Python生态系统。

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