The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
An Empirical Study of Open-Source and Closed-Source Software Products
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comparison between SLOCs and number of files as size metrics for software evolution analysis
CSMR '06 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
An Empirically-Based Criterion for Determining the Success of an Open-Source Project
ASWEC '06 Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference
FLOSS '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development
I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Open sources 2.0
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Crowds and Communities: Light and Heavyweight Models of Peer Production
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
CASTLE: Continuously Anonymizing Data Streams
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
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It has been claimed that the advent of user-generated content has reshaped the way people approached all sorts of content realization projects, being multimedia (YouTube, DeviantArt, etc.), knowledge (Wikipedia, blogs), to software in general, when based on a more general Open Source model. After many years of research and evidence, several studies have demonstrated that Open Source Software (OSS) portals often contain a large amount of software projects that simply do not evolve, often developed by relatively small communities, and that still struggle to attract a sustained number of contributors. In terms of such content, the "tragedy" appears to be that the user demand for content and the offer of experts contributing content are on curves with different slopes, with the demand growing more quickly. In this paper we argue that, even given the differences in the requested expertise, many projects reliant on user-contributed content and expertise undergo a similar evolution, along a logistic growth: a first slow growth rate is followed by a much faster evolution growth. When a project fails to attract more developers i.e. contributors, the evolution of project's content does not present the "explosive growth" phase, and it will eventually "burnout", and the project appears to be abandoned. Far from being a negative finding, even abandoned project's content provides a valuable resource that could be reused in the future within other projects.