Can we extract a relevant, available, and self-contained core of the Maven ecosystem?: Extracting the pillars of the community, and their dependencies.

The Maven ecosystem, with an emphasis on Maven Central, contains a plethora of toy-projects. This paper addresses this problem by formulating a core containing the pillars of the Maven ecosystem, such that it can be exploited for research concerning li- brary quality. The construction of said core is done by analyzing the availability, relevance...