Getting started

To start off with I had a look at some research papers looking at mining software repositories.

MSRConf (an annual conference on mining data from software repositories had a good list of papers produced both at the conferences and those in similar areas).

#1 has a list of the papers I looked at and my comments.

Areas to look at:

1. How to store/retrieve information about the repository quickly - should we put all commit objects in a database for quick indexing, or will accessing the filesystem be a fast enough alternative?
2. Javascript front end for scrolling through code - doesn't require (1) to get started