Our approach to better understand the nature of collaboration in open-source software (OSS) development is to view it as a participative system, where people and artifacts are int...
An Open Source Software (OSS) project is unlikely to be successful unless there is an accompanied community that provides the platform for developers and users to collaborate. Mem...
Some of the most interesting differences between Open Source Software (OSS) development and commercial colocated software development lie in the communication and collaboration pr...
Koji Yatani, Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen, Khai N...
Open source projects do have requirements; they are, however, mostly informal, text descriptions found in requests, forums, and other correspondence. Understanding of such require...
The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...