Dear Freenet developers, I'm Alberto Bacchelli, I worked on GSoC '07 with Freenet and now I'm a Ph.D. student in software engineering.
We want to help new developers who join a new software system, and we believe that a good first impression would attract more contributors. Imagine a new developer joining Freenet: As a first step, he needs a high-level view of the system. Then, and this is what we want to address, he needs to know what the most important classes of the system are --the hotspots. We'd like to find *automated* methods to suggest a newbie which classes he should start to study/understand. To find the best recommendation method, we must know the important classes of the system, and you, as the system developers, are the only ones who can answer this question. If you agree to do so (and I really hope so :) ) we will create a small questionnaire for you, that will take less than 15 minutes to be completed. Thank you very much for reading this e-mail. Please, reply to this thread or send me an e-mail if you want to participate, and/or give me feedback. Cheers, Alberto PS: Since we want our work to respect the free software philosophy, if you agree, we would make all your answers public (anonymyzed if you wish) as a benchmark, so that other researchers can use your answers to propose even better techniques for this task.
