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...
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...
Much research on open source software development concentrates on developer lists and other software repositories to investigate what motivates professional software developers to...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...
WEKA is a popular machine learning workbench with a development life of nearly two decades. This article provides an overview of the factors that we believe to be important to its...
Remco R. Bouckaert, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall, Geof...
In spite of the overwhelming success of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) like Apache and GNU/Linux, there is a limited understanding of the processes and methodologies that speci...