Cross-ecosystem categorization: A manual-curation protocol for the categorization of Java Maven libraries along Python PyPI Topics

arXiv:2403.06300v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Context: Software of different functional categories, such as text processing vs. networking, has different profiles in terms of metrics like security and updates. Using popularity to compare e.g. Java vs. Python libraries might give a skewed perspective, as the categories of the most popular software vary from one ecosystem to the next. How can one compare libraries datasets across software ecosystems, when not even the category names are uniform among them? Objective: We study how …

arxiv context cs.cr cs.se ecosystem java libraries maven metrics networking perspective profiles protocol pypi python security software terms text topics updates