E-mails concerning the development issues of a system constitute an important source of information about high-level design decisions, low-level implementation concerns, and the social structure of developers.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Bacchelli-al:ICSE10,
author = {Alberto Bacchelli and
Michele Lanza and
Romain Robbes},
title = {Linking e-mails and source code artifacts},
booktitle = {ICSE (Part I)},
pages = {375--384},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2010},
}