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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Repository as Network: Visualizing Collaboration in git

Dmitry Yanter

Is your official org chart hiding critical engineering bottlenecks? Visualizing Git collaboration networks exposes the true pacemaker developers and prevents institutional amnesia in your codebase.

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#1 about 3 min

Viewing version control repositories as a collaboration network

Visualizing meta-information in version control reveals hidden codebase collaboration graphs and effective development networks.

#2 about 2 min

Calculating co-editing networks to find structural project impact

Intensively computing co-authoring networks uncovers how individual code contributions impact the overall project structure.

#3 about 3 min

Identifying core developer pacemakers in open source repositories

Mapping vast open source projects reveals that small core groups act as vital architectural pacemakers.

#4 about 4 min

Average collaboration limits across large scale developer teams

Tracing co-editing bounds demonstrates that productive developer collaboration naturally condenses to roughly five people.

#5 about 1 min

Comparing organizational charts against actual repository structures

Contrasting commit histories against organizational charts proves that effective engineering groups often ignore hierarchy.

#6 about 1 min

Finding the bridge factor connecting separate engineering teams

Spotting central developers who connect multiple isolated teams helps mitigate dangerous structural bus factor risks.

#7 about 3 min

Measuring developer productivity on owned versus foreign code

Mining code edits confirms that developers produce faster throughput when constrained to familiar codebases.

#8 about 2 min

Mapping effective ownership boundaries with visual property clustering

Generating visual tree maps of codebase commits empowers leaders to cleanly distribute application module ownership.

#9 about 2 min

Categorizing codebase age to spot forgotten legacy systems

Segmenting repositories by temporal activity isolates forgotten legacy modules that nobody actively maintains anymore.

#10 about 3 min

Managing forgotten prehistoric code during complex production incidents

These unmaintained prehistoric blocks harbor hidden bottlenecks that trigger catastrophic failures during massive production incidents.

#11 about 3 min

Analyzing the impact of automated code review bots

Evaluating automated code reviews demonstrates how bot-driven quality gates artificially inflate internal daily throughput metrics.

#12 about 5 min

Leveraging repository data to restructure and optimize teams

Analyzing artifact-based metrics from version control provides empirical pathways to resolve developer collaboration and productivity bottlenecks.

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Uncovering team dynamics through version control data analysis

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Scaling organizational trust across hybrid multi-repository workflows

Laura Thorson Laura Thorson · WWC Europe 2026

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Transforming code repositories into interactive architecture knowledge graphs

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Manipulating repository contribution graphs and open source project metrics

Chris Heilmann +1 · LIVE

1:05 min

Modernizing legacy code repositories for robust artificial intelligence

April Yoho April Yoho · WWC Europe 2026

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Accessing the repository and collaborating on COBOL problems

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · WWC 2025

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