Analysis of Projects and Volunteer Participation in Large Scale Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem

Authors:
Raj P. M. Krishna;K . G. Srinivasa
Affiliations:
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore;M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The ecology of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is dotted by projects of every kind ranging from small desktop applications to large mission critical systems. To enable maximum visibility among the developer community, these projects are often hosted in community project management portals. The current work studies one such portal, sourceforge. net by analysing the data of 200,000 projects and 2 million developers for the period Feb 2005 to Aug 2009. The scope of the present study includes the analysis of developer contribution. The slow growth rate of developer community and high number of single developer projects are the major findings of the present work.