Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency
| Autor: | Tadeusz Chelkowski, Dariusz Jemielniak, Kacper Macikowski |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Computer and Information Sciences
Source code Knowledge management Source lines of code Science Policy Science media_common.quotation_subject Social Sciences Computer Software Open Science Sociology Computer software Code (cryptography) Mass Media Computer Networks media_common Data Management Internet Multidisciplinary Electronic Mail business.industry Software development Software Development Software Engineering Online Encyclopedias Open source software Communications Source Code Models Organizational Medicine Engineering and Technology Encyclopedias The Internet Programming Languages business Software Open Source Software Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257192 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS activities on the projects and organizations level, such as commits frequency, source code lines, and code comments, we find that there is less activity now than there was a decade ago. Moreover, our results suggest a greater decrease in the activities in large and well-established FOSS organizations. Our findings indicate that as technologies and business strategies related to FOSS mature, the role of large formal FOSS organizations serving as intermediary between developers diminishes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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