Open Source Software (OSS) has made great strides toward mainstream acceptance over the past two years. However, many IT managers, both in business and academia, are still cautiou...
Mike Davis, Will O'Donovan, John Fritz, Carlisle C...
In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Socio-technical processes have come to the forefront of recent analysis of the open source software development (OSSD) world. Interest in making these processes explicit is mounti...
Abstract. FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) distributions use dependencies and package managers to maintain huge collections of packages and their installations; recent research...
The conduct of collaborative scientific study mediated by the internet — e-Science — is giving rise to a new type of large distributed software project. This paper reports in...