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Linchpin Developers in Open Source Software Projects

MASTRANZO CORONA, Ingrid Erika a Bruno ROSSI

Základní údaje

Originální název

Linchpin Developers in Open Source Software Projects

Autoři

MASTRANZO CORONA, Ingrid Erika a Bruno ROSSI

Vydání

Proceeding (793) Artificial Intelligence and Applications / 794: Modelling, Identification and Control / 795: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks / 796: Software Engineering / 792: Web-based Education, 10 s. 2013

Nakladatel

ACTA Press

Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

ISBN

978-0-88986-955-4

DOI

Klíčová slova anglicky

Software Engineering, Software Development Process, Open Source Software Systems, Mining Software Repositories

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 10. 10. 2014 17:24, doc. Bruno Rossi, PhD

Anotace

V originále

In Open Source Software (OSS) development, the so-called linchpin developers are those that contribute contemporaneously to several projects, contributing to keeping the community tied together. While such developers have been identified in previous research, their importance within the OSS community has not been widely discussed. The main objective of this work is to analyze their “weaving” role across projects. With this aim, we mined software repositories, using text mining techniques as log-likehood ratio and co-word analysis, further building social networks of developers within emerging communities. The findings show that linchpin developers generally attach in a preferential way to projects in a single specific domain. They tend to be more “project managers”, and “all-hands-persons”, meaning that they bring multi-disciplinary experience across projects. They tend to cover the same role across projects. They generally have high centrality in their projects, and contribute to create projects that ease the transition from a fragmented projects community to a more core-periphery community.