thesis in the context of mining software repositories

Description
Brief description of the topic

  • study feature annotations in the codebase history of the Mozilla Firefox project
  • study feature ownership in the codebase history of the Linux kernel: Who maintains feature code? What kinds of coordination patterns arise?
  • identify and study merge refactorings in the codebase history of the Linux kernel or another large open-source project (such as from github)

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Extent: B.Sc./ M.Sc.