Evolution patterns of open-source software systems and communities

Nakakoji, Kumiyo; Yamamoto, Y.; Nishinaka, Yoshiyuki; Kishida, Kouichi; Ye, Yunwen

doi:10.1145/512054.512055

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“…In OSS, programmers with different skill sets and skill levels, supporters, and users organise themselves in virtual (online) communities, and voluntarily contribute to a collaborative software project [22].…”

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“…OSS communities also co-evolve together with the associated OSS systems [22]: faced with turnover [28], these communities are sustained and reproduced over time through the progressive integration of new members [6]. However, with the abandonment of existing developers, OSS communities lose human resources with knowledge of the system or of some of its components, or, stated differently, with mastery of certain programming languages.…”

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The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

Vasilescu

Serebrenik

Brand

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Open source software (OSS) development communities are typically very specialised, on the one hand, and experience high turnover, on the other. Combination of specialization and turnover can cause parts of the system implemented in a certain programming language to become unmaintainable, if knowledge of that language has disappeared together with the retiring developers. Inspired by measures of linguistic diversity from the study of natural languages, we propose a method to quantify the risk of not having maintainers for code implemented in a certain programming language. To illustrate our approach, we studied risks associated with different languages in Emacs, and found examples of low risk due to high popularity (e.g., C, Emacs Lisp); low risk due to similarity with popular languages (e.g., C++, Java, Python); or high risk due to both low popularity and low similarity with popular languages (e.g., Lex). Our results show that methods from the social sciences can be successfully applied in the study of information systems, and open numerous avenues for future research.

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The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

Vasilescu

Serebrenik

Brand

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…On the other hand, some studies emphasize that high-quality OSS components rely heavily on having a large, sustainable community to develop code rapidly, debug code effectively, and build new features [5]. Thus, the organizations that integrate OSS components into their systems represent a potential base of contributing members needed to sustain the OSS communities [6].…”

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OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Ayala

Cruzes

Nguyen

et al. 2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The reuse and integration of Open Source Software (OSS) components provided by OSS communities is becoming an economical and strategic need for today's organizations. The integration of OSS components provides many benefits, but also risks and challenges. One of the most important risks is the lack of effective and timely OSS community support for dealing with possible integration problems. For gaining an understanding of the common problems that organizations face when integrating OSS components, and the role played by OSS communities, we performed an exploratory study on 25 OSS integration projects from different European organizations. The results show that the main way of reducing integration problems was the use of OSS components from well-established communities; therefore very few integration problems were identified. In most of the cases these problems were successfully solved with the support from the OSS community and/or colleagues. In addition, contrary to the common belief that understanding code from someone else is a hard and undesirable task, some integrators consider OSS code even more understandable than their own code.

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“…In the case of open source communities, the situation is worsened as the problem is multi-facet bringing own kinds of challenges. For instance, this can be viewed as a social question: OSS communities typically come with own kinds of social structures [6,12] that should be tolerated by existing organizational patterns in companies. From a legality viewpoint, the selected licensing type and scheme, for example, can affect the way the open source project is perceived by the community [18].…”

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“…In particular, we study the requirements of the community building process and the important issues that should be addressed for preparing a release plan. For the purpose a conceptual framework, which is based on the widely recognized onion structure of open source communities [12], is introduced.…”

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Opening Industrial Software: Planting an Onion

Sirkkala

Aaltonen

Hammouda

2009

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. This paper studies the problem of building open source communities for industrial software that was originally developed as closed source. We present a conceptual framework for planning the early stages of the release process highlighting the main stakeholders and concerns involved. The framework is illustrated by means of three industrial software platforms reporting first experiences of the community building process. In order to measure the effectiveness of the approach, the use of a quantitative and qualitative evaluation framework is advocated.

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Evolution patterns of open-source software systems and communities

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The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Opening Industrial Software: Planting an Onion

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