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Developers, Quality Control and Download Volume in Open Source Software (OSS) Projects
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing ( IF 6.5 ) Pub Date : 2017-04-01 , DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2017040103
Geoffrey Hill 1 , Pratim Datta 2 , Candice Vander Weerdt 3
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The open-source software OSS movement is often analogized as a commons, where products are developed by and consumed in an open community. However, does a larger commons automatically beget success or does the phenomenon fall prey to the tragedy of the commons? This research forwards and empirically investigates the curvilinear relationship between developers and OSS project quality and a project's download volume. Using segmented regression on over 12,000 SourceForge OSS projects, findings suggest an inflection point in the number of contributing developers on download volume-suggesting increasing and diminishing returns to scale from adding developers to OSS projects. Findings support the economic principle of the tragedy of the commons, a concept where an over-allocated large number of developers, even in an open-source environment, can lead to resource mismanagement and reduce the benefit of a public good, i.e. the OSS project.

中文翻译:

开源软件(OSS)项目中的开发人员,质量控制和下载量

开源软件OSS运动通常被喻为一个共同点,即产品是由开放社区开发和消费的。但是,更大的公地会自动获得成功吗?还是这种现象成为公地悲剧的牺牲品?这项研究向前并凭经验研究了开发商与OSS项目质量与项目下载量之间的曲线关系。通过对超过12,000个SourceForge OSS项目进行分段回归,研究结果表明,在下载量方面,有贡献的开发人员的数量出现了拐点,这意味着增加和减少的收益(从将开发人员添加到OSS项目中的规模)。研究结果支持公地悲剧的经济原理,即即使在开放源代码环境中,也过度分配了大量开发人员的概念,
更新日期:2017-04-01
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