Herding Cats: A Case Study of Release Management in an Open Collaboration Ecosystem
| Autor: | Leif Singer, Daniel M. German, Eric Knauss, Germán Poo-Caamaño |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Engineering
Schedule Knowledge management Application programming interface business.industry Process (engineering) Software development 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Software release life cycle Release management 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Herding business Gnome |
| Zdroj: | IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ISBN: 9783319392240 OSS |
| Popis: | Release management in large-scale software development projects requires significant communication and coordination. It is particularly challenging in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystems, in which hundreds of loosely connected developers and their projects need to be coordinated to release software to a schedule. To better understand this process and its challenges, we analyzed over two and half years of communication in the GNOME ecosystem and studied developers’ interactions. We cataloged communication channels, categorized high level communication and coordination activities in one of them, and triangulated our results by interviewing developers. We found that a release schedule, influence instead of direct control, and diversity are factors that impact positively the release process in the GNOME ecosystem. Our results can help organizations build better large-scale teams and show that research focused on individual projects might miss important parts of the picture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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