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+# Mining Gerrit Data to Study Contentious Reviews and Community Evolution
+
+Software teams that use Gerrit are quickly accumulating data about their code
+reviewing processes. The [Software REBELs](http://rebels.ece.mcgill.ca/)—a
+research lab at McGill University—mine code review data to study topics like the
+impact that code review practices have on software release and design quality.
+Our more recent work mines code review data to study the reviewing process
+itself. In this talk, I will describe the results of two empirical studies of
+data that we collected from the Gerrit instances of the OpenStack project. The
+first study aims to understand the reviews where reviewers disagree about a
+patch. The second study follows how the concerns that reviewers raise evolve as
+the OpenStack community ages and individual reviews accrue experience.
+
+*Shane McIntosh, McGill University*
+
+Shane McIntosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and
+Computer Engineering at McGill University, where he leads the Software
+Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (Software REBELs). He received
+his Bachelor's degree in Applied Computing from the University of Guelph and
+his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University, for which he was
+awarded the Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal. In his research,
+Shane uses empirical software engineering techniques to study software build
+systems, release engineering, and software quality. More info about Shane and
+the REBELs is available [online](http://rebels.ece.mcgill.ca/).
