Melquiades documentation and help

Documentation and help for the Melquiades platform, the main service of the FLOSSMetrics project.

• API: Web-based REST API, for accessing the data in Melquiades from scripts in the client side.

• Database: About the database and its structure (not database dumps). Access to the database maybe available to researchers upon reasoned request. However, database dumps should be enough for most purposes.

• Dumps: About database dumps, how to get them, and how to use them.

• Metrics: About the metrics available in the database.

• Reports: About database reports. Reports are self-contained databases, available from FLOSSMetrics as database dumps, which include the results of a certain query over FLOSSMetrics data.

• Queries: List of main queries over FLOSSMetrics data.

• Generation Graphs: Explanation of how the 3D generation graphs should be understood.

• FLOSSMetrics main site

• Melquiades: web interface to all data provided by the project (database dumps).

• Melquiades wiki: documentation for Melquiades (data formats, tools used, specific information about dumps, etc.)

• Melquiades support page: Submit bugs about data (data formats, dumps, etc) or request for projects

• Libresoft-tools project: the software and tools behind FLOSSMetrics. Most interesting stuff is in the svn repository (look for retrieval-system, cvsnaly2, bicho, mlstats). Discussion about the tools is carried in mailing lists there, too.

• ”FLOSSMetrics: providing data about FLOSS development”, talk at FOSDEM 2009 (video recording, slides)