Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply Network
A Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) — open source development community dataset of 27,927 nodes and 242,976 edges, collected by Ingo Scholtes et al. via mailing list archive. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True, signed: False, temporal: True. Temporal directed reply network of the Linux Kernel Mailing List — one of the longest-running and most active open source development communities. Edges carry Unix timestamps enabling longitudinal analysis.. Suitable for temporal network analysis, community detection, open source collaboration.
Cite this dataset at
lkml.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 27,927 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
lkml- Authors
- Homscheid, Dirk; Kunegis, Jérôme; Schaarschmidt, Mario
- Year
- 2015
- Source paper
- Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_24
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 27,927
- Nodes
- 27,927
- Edges
- 242,976 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- reply
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2006 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/lkml-reply/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 6.0 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development
Dirk Homscheid, Jérôme Kunegis, M. Schaarschmidt
Journal Article · IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society · 2015
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inbook{Homscheid_2015,
title = {Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development},
isbn = {9783319250137},
issn = {1611-3349},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_24},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_24},
booktitle = {Open and Big Data Management and Innovation},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
author = {Homscheid, Dirk and Kunegis, Jérôme and Schaarschmidt, Mario},
year = {2015},
pages = {299–313}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Homscheid, D., Kunegis, J., & Schaarschmidt, M. (2015). Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_24
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Homscheid, Dirk, et al. Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply Network. 2015, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_24.