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MSR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Evolution of the core team of developers in libre software projects
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-B...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications
The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Israel Herraiz, Jesús M. González-Ba...
JDM
2008
114views more  JDM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Bug Fixing Practices within Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...
Kevin Crowston, Barbara Scozzi
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evolution and Growth in Large Libre Software Projects
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...
Gregorio Robles, Juan José Amor, Jesú...