论文信息 - Influences on developer participation in the Debian software ecosystem

Influences on developer participation in the Debian software ecosystem

Now a days, more and more open source software developers are starting to create software in decentralized communities. For these software ecosystems and their many end-users it does not always guarantee contributions where needed. This paper maps the influential factors that determine developer participation with a case study on the open source software Debian website. Data was gathered on potentially influential events and all commits in the year 2000 to 2011. The two previous data results are compared in a correlation study to derive relationships. In 11% of the types of events that were studied, there was a reoccurring relation with in-or decreased developer participation. Ecosystem project leaders can stimulate or prevent these events to prevent missing in action developers and welcome new developers.

Slinger Jansen | Eric Ververs | Rick van Bommel

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