Why the software history was not kept?

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Why the software history was not kept?

[simonmar]

We have the history internally, but it was not exposed when open-sourcing the project due to the effort it would have taken to manually edit all the history to remove information that was internal and mostly irrelevant to open-source users. I don't think the lack of history for this project is a barrier to using it.

[gustavopinto]

Hi @simonmar,

thanks once again for answering our research inquiries. We were able to collect 35 responses and we drafted a research paper with the results. The paper was submitted and accepted for the 14th International Conference on Open Source Systems (http://oss2018.org/). You can find the paper here. Hope you enjoy reading the paper!

Thanks again,

Gustavo