Replication pack, FSE2018 submission #164: ------------------------------------------ Working title: Ecosystem-Level Factors Affecting the Survival of Open-Source Projects: A Case Study of the PyPI Ecosystem Note: link to data artifacts is already included in the paper. Link to the code will be included in the Camera Ready version as well. Content description =================== - ghd-0.1.0.zip - the code archive. This code produces the dataset files described below - settings.py - settings template for the code archive. - dataset_minimal_Jan_2018.zip - the minimally sufficient version of the dataset. This dataset only includes stats aggregated by the ecosystem (PyPI) - dataset_full_Jan_2018.tgz - full version of the dataset, including project-level statistics. It is ~34Gb unpacked. This dataset still doesn't include PyPI packages themselves, which take around 2TB. - build_model.r, helpers.r - R files to process the survival data (survival_data.csv in dataset_minimal_Jan_2018.zip, common.cache/survival_data.pypi_2008_2017-12_6.csv in dataset_full_Jan_2018.tgz) - Interview protocol.pdf - approximate protocol used for semistructured interviews. - LICENSE - text of GPL v3, under which this dataset is published - INSTALL.md - replication guide (~2 pages) Replication guide ================= Step 0 - prerequisites ---------------------- - Unix-compatible OS (Linux or OS X) - Python interpreter (2.7 was used; Python 3 compatibility is highly likely) - R 3.4 or higher (3.4.4 was used, 3.2 is known to be incompatible) Depending on detalization level (see Step 2 for more details): - up to 2Tb of disk space (see Step 2 detalization levels) - at least 16Gb of RAM (64 preferable) - few hours to few month of processing time Step 1 - software ---------------- - unpack ghd-0.1.0.zip, or clone from gitlab: git clone https://gitlab.com/user2589/ghd.git git checkout 0.1.0 cd into the extracted folder. All commands below assume it as a current directory. - copy settings.py into the extracted folder. Edit the file: * set DATASET_PATH to some newly created folder path * add at least one GitHub API token to SCRAPER_GITHUB_API_TOKENS - install docker. For Ubuntu Linux, the command is sudo apt-get install docker-compose - install libarchive and headers: sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev - (optional) to replicate on NPM, install yajl: sudo apt-get install yajl-tools Without this dependency, you might get an error on the next step, but it's safe to ignore. - install Python libraries: pip install --user -r requirements.txt . - disable all APIs except GitHub (Bitbucket and Gitlab support were not yet implemented when this study was in progress): edit scraper/init.py, comment out everything except GitHub support in PROVIDERS. Step 2 - obtaining the dataset ----------------------------- The ultimate goal of this step is to get output of the Python function common.utils.survival_data() and save it into a CSV file: # copy and paste into a Python console from common import utils survival_data = utils.survival_data('pypi', '2008', smoothing=6) survival_data.to_csv('survival_data.csv') Since full replication will take several months, here are some ways to speedup the process: ####Option 2.a, difficulty level: easiest Just use the precomputed data. Step 1 is not necessary under this scenario. - extract dataset_minimal_Jan_2018.zip - get survival_data.csv, go to the next step ####Option 2.b, difficulty level: easy Use precomputed longitudinal feature values to build the final table. The whole process will take 15..30 minutes. - create a folder <DATASET_PATH>/common.cache, where <DATASET_PATH> is the value of the variable DATASET_PATH in settings.py - extract dataset_minimal_Jan_2018 to the newly created folder - rename files: mv backporting.csv monthly_data.pypi_backporting.csv mv cc_degree.csv monthly_data.pypi_cc_degree.csv mv commercial.csv monthly_data.pypi_commercial.csv mv commits.csv monthly_data.pypi_commits.csv mv contributors.csv monthly_data.pypi_contributors.csv mv dc_katz.csv monthly_data.pypi_dc_katz.csv mv downstreams.csv monthly_data.pypi_downstreams.csv mv d_upstreams.csv monthly_data.pypi_d_upstreams.csv mv github_user_info.csv user_info.pypi.csv mv issues.csv monthly_data.pypi_issues.csv mv non_dev_issues.csv monthly_data.pypi_non_dev_issues.csv mv non_dev_submitters.csv monthly_data.pypi_non_dev_submitters mv package_urls.csv package_urls.pypi.csv mv q90.csv monthly_data.pypi_q90.csv # raw_dependencies.csv is not required # raw_packages_info.csv is not required # Feel free to read README.md for more details about the data mv submitters.csv monthly_data.pypi_submitters.csv # In this scenario we'll generate a new survival_data.csv mv university.csv monthly_data.pypi_university.csv mv upstreams.csv monthly_data.pypi_upstreams.csv - edit common/decorators.py, set DEFAULT_EXPIRY to some higher value, e.g. DEFAULT_EXPIRY = float('inf') # cache never expires Then, use the Python code above to obtain survival_data.csv. ####Option 2.c, difficulty level: medium Use predownloaded raw data to build longitudinal feature values, and then the dataset. Despite most of the data is cached, some functions will pull up updates which might take anywhere from days to couple weeks to run. - Download dataset_full_Jan_2018.tgz from http://k.soberi.us/dataset_full_Jan_2018.tgz . This file is not included in this archive because of its size (5.4Gb compressed, 34Gb unpacked). - edit common/decorators.py, set DEFAULT_EXPIRY to some higher value, e.g. DEFAULT_EXPIRY = float('inf') # cache never expires - extract the content of this archive into <DATASET_PATH>. - clean up <DATASET_PATH>/common.cache (otherwise you'll get Step 2.a. You can reproduce Step 2.b by deleting only survival_data.pypi_2008_2017-12_6.csv) Run the Python code above to obtain survival_data.csv. ####Option 2.d, difficulty level: hard Build the dataset from scratch. Although most of the processing is parallelized, it will take at least couple months on a reasonably powerful server (32 cores, 512G of RAM, 2Tb+ of HDD space in our setup). - ensure the <DATASET_PATH> is empty - add more GitHub tokens (borrow from your coworkers) to settings.py. Run the Python code above to obtain survival_data.csv. Step 3 - run the regression --------------------------- install R libraries: install.packages(c("htmlTable", "OIsurv", "survival", "car", "survminer", "ggplot2", "sqldf", "pscl", "texreg", "xtable")) Use build_model.r (e.g. in RStudio) and produced survival_data.csv to build the regressions used in the paper. This process takes at least 16Gb of RAM and takes few hours to run due to the gigantic size of the dataset.