A time-lag analysis for improving communication among OSS developers

  • Authors:
  • Masao Ohira;Kiwako Koyama;Akinori Ihara;Shinsuke Matsumoto;Yasutaka Kamei;Ken-Ichi Matsumoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

  • Venue:
  • JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In the open source software (OSS) development environment, a communication time-lag among developers is more likely to happen due to time differences among locations of developers and differences of working hours for OSS development. A means for effective communication among OSS developers has been increasingly demanded in recent years, since an OSS product and its users requires a prompt response to issues such as defects and security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose an analysis method for observing the time-lag of communication among developers in an OSS project and then facilitating the communication.