Measuring Perceived Trust in Open Source Software Communities

Syeed, M. M. Mahbubul; Lindman, Juho; Hammouda, Imed

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57735-7_5

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“…Based on merit and the earning of trust and status in the community, individuals are granted further responsibility and authority [17]. Merit correlates to the quality and quantity of the individual's contributions [11,22]. A common assumption is that these contributions are limited to technical code contributions, however, as is shown by Eckhardt et al [18], this can be a simplification.…”

Section: Governance In Oss Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Findings from the interviews regarding engagement practices align with Dahlander and Magnusson [20], in that influence in a meritocratic OSS community is built through creating a symbiotic relationship with the community. Trust and status are gained through active involvement and respecting its norms and values [22,20,32,23]. As pointed out by S9, gaining influence may be done through different types of engagements and with varying types of resources, "It's bringing code, bringing people into influence, in most projects, buying influence is not as easy to do, but you can still spend sponsorship money and port money to make sure that a project is happier or healthier for example".…”

Section: Influencing the Requirements Engineering Process In Oss Comm...mentioning

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“…In OSS communities with a meritocratic governance structure [14,15], either in part or in full [16], influence is gained by proving merit and earning trust and status within the community [17]. What merit constitutes depends on the context [18,19], but is generally gained by building an active and symbiotic relationship with the community where a firm dedicates resources, contributes internal requirements and actively participates in the development of the OSS [20,21,2,7,22,23]. A meritocratic OSS community, therefore, offers an opportunity for the focal firm to influence the community's RE process according to the firm's own agenda while competing and collaborating with the other stakeholders in the community [23].…”

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A Community Strategy Framework -- How to obtain Influence on Requirements in Meritocratic Open Source Software Communities?

Linåker,

Regnell,

Damian

2022

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Context: In the Requirements Engineering (RE) process of an Open Source Software (OSS) community, an involved firm is a stakeholder among many. Conflicting agendas may create miss-alignment with the firm's internal requirements strategy. In communities with meritocratic governance or with aspects thereof, a firm has the opportunity to affect the RE process in line with their own agenda by gaining influence through active and symbiotic engagements. Objective: The focus of this study has been to identify what aspects that firms should consider when they assess their need of influencing the RE process in an OSS community, as well as what engagement practices that should be considered in order to gain this influence. Method: Using a design science approach, 21 interviews with 18 industry professionals from 12 different software-intensive firms were conducted to explore, design and validate an artifact for the problem context. Results: A Community Strategy Framework (CSF) is presented to help firms create community strategies that describe if and why they need influence on the RE process in a specific (meritocratic) OSS community, and how the firm could gain it. The framework consists of aspects and engagement practices. The aspects help determine how important an OSS project and its community is from business and technical perspectives. A community perspective is used when considering the feasibility and potential in gaining influence. The engagement practices are intended as a tool-box for how a firm can engage with a community in order to build influence needed. Conclusion: It is concluded from interview-based validation that the proposed CSF may provide support for firms in creating and tailoring community strategies and help them to focus resources on communities that matter and gain the influence needed on their respective RE processes.

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Section: Governance In Oss Communitiesmentioning

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Section: Influencing the Requirements Engineering Process In Oss Comm...mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Damian

2022

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“…A fourth theme concerns control aspects (Linåker et al 2018). If an OSS community has a meritocratic coordination process in place (Shaikh and Henfridsson 2017), influence on the development direction of the community may be gained by participating in the development and maintaining a symbiotic relationship (Linåker et al 2019a;Magnusson 2005, 2006;Butler et al 2018;Schaarschmidt et al 2015;Syeed et al 2017;Nguyen-Duc et al 2019). This may help steer the community including competitors and to manage potentially conflicting agendas (Linåker et al 2019a;West and Wood 2008;Munir et al 2016;Schaarschmidt et al 2015;Mäenpää et al 2018).…”

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“…A fourth theme concerns control aspects [38]. If an OSS community has a meritocratic coordination process in place [63], influence on the development direction of the community may be gained by participating in the development and maintaining a symbiotic relationship [5,10,12,39,53,60,67]. This may help steer the community including competitors and to manage potentially conflicting agendas [39,45,50,60,76].…”

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What to share, when, and where: balancing the objectives and complexities of open source software contributions

Linåker¹,

Regnell²

2020

Empir Software Eng

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Context: Software-intensive organizations' rationale for sharing Open Source Software (OSS) may be driven by both idealistic, strategic and commercial objectives, and include both monetary as well as non-monetary benefits. To gain the potential benefits, an organization may need to consider what they share and how, while taking into account risks, costs and other complexities. Objective: This study aims to empirically investigate objectives and complexities organizations need to consider and balance between when deciding on what software to share as OSS, when to share it, and whether to create a new or contribute to an existing community. Method: A multiple-case study of three case organizations was conducted in two research cycles, with data gathered from interviews with 20 practitioners from these organizations. The data was analyzed qualitatively in an inductive and iterative coding process. Results: 12 contribution objectives and 15 contribution complexities were found. Objectives include opportunities for improving reputation, managing suppliers, managing partners and competitors, and exploiting externally available knowledge and resources. Complexities include risk of loosing control, risk of giving away competitive advantage, risk of creating negative exposure, costs of contributing, and the possibility and need to contribute to an existing or new community. Conclusions: Cross-case analysis and interview validation show that the identified objectives and complexities offer organizations a possibility to reflect on and adapt their contribution strategies based on their specific contexts and business goals.

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Measuring Perceived Trust in Open Source Software Communities

Cited by 6 publications

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A Community Strategy Framework -- How to obtain Influence on Requirements in Meritocratic Open Source Software Communities?

A Community Strategy Framework -- How to obtain Influence on Requirements in Meritocratic Open Source Software Communities?

What to share, when, and where: balancing the objectives and complexities of open source software contributions

MRI Based Automated Detection of Brain Tumor Using DWT, GLCM, PCA, Ensemble of SVM and PNN in Sequence

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