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On Friday, May 17, 2013 7:54:43 PM UTC+2, G.B. wrote:
> On 17.05.13 14:53, Martin Dias wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> >
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> > We are conducting an academic research to improve tools for software in=
tegration. If you maintain a project with multiple contributors, we will gr=
eatly appreciate your participation.
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> >
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> > Your answers will be used for research purposes and to support the deve=
lopment of new tools. You can later access the results of this study, make =
free use of our tools to support the integration of changes, and maybe rece=
ive a gift.
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> >
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> > https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/667625/lang-en
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> >
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> > Best regards,
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> > Martin Dias, Nicolas Anquetil, Veronica Isabel Uquillas, St=EF=BF=BDpha=
ne Ducasse and the RMOD Inria team
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> >
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> Just one comment or question, maybe:
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> When you say LOC, which software is counted?
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> Pieces of software that are being integrated may be of
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> an unknown number of LOC.
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> Some libraries come with a system and their LOC
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> just does not matter; its integration does.
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> Some software is never touched by any one member
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> of all teams involved. Do its LOC count?
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> Some pieces of code will appear explicitly in
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> an "integration setup", others won't.


Hello G.B.,

Thank you for your feedback.=20

It's a good point. We should had made it more clear. We will use the LOC nu=
mber to have some notion of the size of the project where the integration i=
s done, so it is better if it does not consider external libraries.

Thank you again.
Mart=EDn