Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source
Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source
Open Source Software Adoption: A Status Report
IEEE Software
Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Open Source Reuse in Commercial Firms
IEEE Software
Open Source Technical Support: A Look at Peer Help-Giving
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 06
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A large number of high quality Open Source Software (OSS) reuse libraries has been developed, and has been becoming increasingly adopted by many software development organizations. Programmers who reuse such OSS libraries often rely on the online peer support platforms such as dedicated mailing lists to seek help from other programmers. However, there is little research in understanding and evaluating how effective such online peer support platforms are for OSS reuse libraries. By detailed studies of mailing lists of two popular OSS libraries (Lucene-Java and Apache Commons), this paper attempts to understand the effectiveness of mailing listbased peer support system. The results indicate that mailing lists are very responsive to the needs of reusing programmers, and this responsiveness is largely fueled by the strong involvement of library developers.