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Analyzing the Availability of Private Contact Channels for PyPI Libraries Alexandros Tsakpinis (17863247) Alexander Pretschner (9241805) Empirical software engineering Contact Information OSS Libraries PyPI Ecosystem Repository Mining <p dir="ltr">The dataset is a JSON file mapping library names to the following information:</p><ul><li>their direct dependencies</li><li>available e-mail addresses on PyPI</li><li>where available, e-mail addresses and repository ownership type found on GitHub</li></ul><p dir="ltr">The notebook analyzes the data to calculate the following metrics:</p><ul><li>Distribution of sources where e-mail addresses are provided</li><li>Distribution of invalid e-mail addresses</li><li>Ratio of libraries providing e-mail addresses</li><li>Ratio of libraries in dependency chains providing e-mail addresses</li></ul><p dir="ltr">There is also code and aggregated results from a domain name analysis. Note, that Email addresses are intentionally not added to the dataset to protect the privacy of authors and maintainers.</p> 2026-09-22T08:07:36Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.30031045.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Analyzing_the_Availability_of_Private_Contact_Channels_for_PyPI_Libraries/30031045 CC BY 4.0