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Analysis of Projects and Volunteer Participation in Large Scale Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem

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Raj P. M. Krishna,

K . G. SrinivasaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943371.1943389

Published: 05 May 2011 Publication History

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The ecology of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is dotted by projects of every kind ranging from small desktop applications to large mission critical systems. To enable maximum visibility among the developer community, these projects are often hosted in community project management portals. The current work studies one such portal, sourceforge. net by analysing the data of 200,000 projects and 2 million developers for the period Feb 2005 to Aug 2009. The scope of the present study includes the analysis of developer contribution. The slow growth rate of developer community and high number of single developer projects are the major findings of the present work.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 2

March 2011

116 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1943371

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