Developer Role Evolution in Open Source Software Ecosystem: An Explanatory Study on GNOME

Cheng, Can; Li, Bing; Li, Zeng-Yang; Zhao, Yuqi; Liao, Fen‐Ling

doi:10.1007/s11390-017-1728-9

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“…While the size of the community increases, the boundaries of the hierarchical layers among the peripheral members tend to be blurred (Joblin et al, 2017). Additionally, several factors, such as the developer's motivation in participating in different projects and the social structure around the developer, can influence their evolution from a peripheral member to a core member (Cheng et al, 2017a).…”

Section: Open Source Developmentmentioning

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Understanding and Supporting the Design Systems Practice

Lamine¹,

Cheng²

2022

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Design systems represent a user interaction design and development approach that is currently of avid interest in the industry. However, little research work has been done to synthesize knowledge related to design systems in order to inform the design of tools to support their creation, maintenance, and usage practices. This paper represents an important step in which we explored the issues that design system projects usually deal with and the perceptions and values of design system project leaders. Through this exploration, we aim to investigate the needs for tools that support the design system approach. We found that the open source communities around design systems focused on discussing issues related to behaviors of user interface components of design systems. At the same time, leaders of design system projects faced considerable challenges when evolving their design systems to make them both capable of capturing stable design knowledge and flexible to the needs of the various concrete products. They valued a bottomup approach for design system creation and maintenance, in which components are elevated and merged from the evolving products. Our findings synthesize the knowledge and lay foundations for designing techniques and tools aimed at supporting the design system practice and related modern user interaction design and development approaches.

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Section: Open Source Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding and Supporting the Design Systems Practice

Lamine¹,

Cheng²

2022

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“…While several existing studies use network analysis to study OSS collaboration systems, the majority of these papers focus more on user-level tendencies [21], [22] and network-level properties rather than community formation [15], [18]. The few studies that do investigate community structure mostly center around the "onion" model [23], which is a conceptual framework that suggests OSS communities are structured hierarchically with a tightly-knit group members driving the community's evolution at the core and disconnected users at the periphery contributing primarily to debugging and documentation.…”

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Community Formation and Detection on GitHub Collaboration Networks

Moradi-Jamei¹,

Kramer²,

Calderón³

et al. 2021

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This paper studies community formation in OSS collaboration networks. While most current work examines the emergence of small-scale OSS projects, our approach draws on a large-scale historical dataset of 1.8 million GitHub users and their repository contributions. OSS collaborations are characterized by small groups of users that work closely together, leading to the presence of communities defined by short cycles in the underlying network structure. To understand the impact of this phenomenon, we apply a pre-processing step that accounts for the cyclic network structure by using Renewal-Nonbacktracking Random Walks (RNBRW) and the strength of pairwise collaborations before implementing the Louvain method to identify communities within the network. Equipping Louvain with RNBRW and the contribution strength provides a more assertive approach for detecting small-scale teams and reveals nontrivial differences in community detection such as users' tendencies toward preferential attachment to more established collaboration communities. Using this method, we also identify key factors that affect community formation, including the effect of users' location and primary programming language, which was determined using a comparative method of contribution activities. Overall, this paper offers several promising methodological insights for both open-source software experts and network scholars interested in studying team formation.

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“…Hill y Shaw (2020), proponen una explicación a partir de la paulatina "clausura" de los proyectos abiertos, en función de proteger el acervo acumulado a lo largo del tiempo. También se ha constatado la impronta de los fundadores y la necesidad de un reclutamiento permanente de participantes para la supervivencia del proyecto (Zanotti, 2014;Cheng et al, 2017).…”

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Desarrollo Floss y gobernanza de pares: el caso del entorno de escritorio Gnome

Zanotti

Vélez

2020

Int. J. Innov.

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Objective of the study: The article analyzes the case of GNOME, one of the most popular Free/ Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects, started in 1997. The concept of peer governance describes the interaction and convergence of companies, foundations, voluntary users and professionals in its development.Methodology/ approach: The research is based on the documentary method and an organizational history approach. For this, primary and secondary digital sources were collected: institutional and FLOSS sites, blogs, community lists, documents and platforms.Originality/ Relevance: The work allows progress, from a sociotechnical perspective, in understanding FLOSS developments and the coevolution of their technical components and community dynamics.Main results: Three levels of governance are identified: 1. the software itself; 2. the community; 3. the ecosystem. Development cycles; community participation and organization; actors and business models, definitions and controversies, are analyzed. GNOME's trajectory is marked by the confluence of interests and coopetition between corporate actors and the FLOSS ecosystem. The life cycle shows a constant activity, which implies redefinition of its components, technological infrastructure and leadership. It is not exempt from controversies and bifurcations, similar to those evidenced in projects of this type.Theoretical/ methodological contributions: It contributes to the concept of peer governance and its usefulness for case analysis. Reflection on data sources and research resources on the Internet is promoted.Social/ managerial contributions: It contributes to the understanding of new forms of management and decision-making in technological development projects.

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Developer Role Evolution in Open Source Software Ecosystem: An Explanatory Study on GNOME

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Understanding and Supporting the Design Systems Practice

Understanding and Supporting the Design Systems Practice

Community Formation and Detection on GitHub Collaboration Networks

Desarrollo Floss y gobernanza de pares: el caso del entorno de escritorio Gnome

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