Who is an open source software developer?

Dempsey, Bert J.; Weiss, Debra; Jones, Paul M.; Greenberg, Jane

doi:10.1145/503124.503125

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“…In GitHub, a set of commits could be grouped together as a release being a phase achievement of the project 3 . Here we simply define a release r j as a set of commits (the number of commits is |r j |).…”

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Distribution and Continuity of Developers' Contributions in OSS Projects: A Case Study

Wang

Perry

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract-Open Source Software (OSS) is usually developed by geographically-distributed developers in a collaborative manner. Different developers exhibit different behaviors and make diversified contributions to OSS projects. Objective of this paper is to discover individualized characteristics and common patterns of how developers contribute to OSS projects. Continuity is used to delineate how a developer actively contributes to the project over time. Case studies on two OSS projects reveal some significant phenomena on the distribution of developers' contributions relative to absolute time and relative to the milestones (i.e., releases) of OSS projects. We have found that OSS developers' contributions exhibit the "temporal locality", and most of the releases of an OSS project are dominated by the contributions of a limited number of developers.

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“…They joined an OSS project with different motivations [1,2]. Consequently, the degree of their participation and the level of their contributions are diversified [3]. A set of individualized characteristics on the behaviors of OSS developers that distinguish one from others who belong to the same OSS project team do indeed exist [4].…”

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Distribution and Continuity of Developers' Contributions in OSS Projects: A Case Study

Wang

Perry

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Dempsey et al [6] analyzed the top-level domain name of the email address (e.g., .ca, .com) of the participant to identify the country of the participant. However the study did not compensate for the US bias resulting from the wide use of generic domains (e.g., .com).…”

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“…Prior work (e.g., [6], [8]) primarily used the toplevel domain name of an email address to identify a participant's country. Such work can identify a limited number of participants since many participants use email addresses that are not specific to any country, such as "hotmail.com".…”

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Techniques for Identifying the Country Origin of Mailing List Participants

Tang

Hassan

Zou

2009

2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering

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-Developer mailing lists play a central role in facilitating communication in open source projects.Participants from different countries and across diverse time zones discuss and resolve important design decisions or conflicts. A good understanding of the social structure of these mailing lists helps in managing these projects and in shaping their implementation structure (i.e., design and architecture). In this paper, we present a technique to determine the country of a mailing list participant. A case study on the developer mailing list for two large open source projects (i.e., PostgreSQL and GTK+) shows that our technique outperforms prior technique.

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“…There is some evidence that in FOSS this fourth group of participants may be particularly important. For example, two studies of larger FOSS projects, Linux (Dempsey, et al, 2002) and the GNOME desktop environment (Koch and Schneider, 2002), found that a smaller set of "core" developers contributed a majority of the code to these projects [15].…”

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Tragedy of the FOSS commons? Investigating the institutional designs of free/libre and open source software projects

Schweik¹,

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2007

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Free/Libre and Open Source Software projects (FOSS) are a form of Internet-based commons. Since 1968, when Garrett Hardin published his famous article "Tragedy of the Commons" in the journal Science, there has been significant interest in understanding how to manage commons appropriately, particularly in environmental fields. An important distinction between natural resource commons and FOSS commons is that the "tragedy" to be avoided in natural resources is over-harvesting and the potential destruction of the resource. In FOSS commons the "tragedy" to be avoided is project abandonment and a "dead" project. Institutions -defined as informal norms, more formalized rules, and governance structures -are mechanisms that have been shown to help overcome tragedies in some environmental commons situations. The goal of this paper is to more formally describe the concept of FOSS institutions and to conduct a preliminary examination of FOSS projects in order to shed light into institutions, their composition and importance to the projects. We report findings from an initial set of interviews of FOSS developers and find that in commons settings that need to encourage contribution rather than control over-appropriation, the institutional designs appear to be extremely lean and as unobtrusive as possible. To the FOSS programmers we interviewed, institutional structure adds transaction costs and hinders collective action. This is markedly different from traditional environmental commons settings.

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Who is an open source software developer?

Abstract: Profiling a community of Linux developers.

Cited by 60 publications

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Distribution and Continuity of Developers' Contributions in OSS Projects: A Case Study

Distribution and Continuity of Developers' Contributions in OSS Projects: A Case Study

Techniques for Identifying the Country Origin of Mailing List Participants

Tragedy of the FOSS commons? Investigating the institutional designs of free/libre and open source software projects

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