Characteristics of open source projects

被引：51

作者：

Capiluppi, A ^{[1
]}

Lago, P ^{[1
]}

Morisio, M ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Automat & Informat, I-10129 Turin, Italy

来源：

SEVENTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS | 2003年

关键词：

D O I：

10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192440

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Most empirical studies about Open Source (OS) projects or products are vertical and usually deal with the flagship, successful projects. There is a substantial lack of horizontal studies to shed light on the whole population of projects, including failures. This paper presents a horizontal study aimed at characterizing OS projects. We analyze a sample of around 400 projects from a popular OS project repository. Each project is characterized by a number of attributes. We analyze these attributes statically and over time. The main results show that few projects are capable of attracting a meaningful community of developers. The majority of projects is made by few (in many cases one) person with a very slow pace of evolution.

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