Governance practices and software maintenance: A study of open source projects

  • Authors:
  • Vishal Midha;Anol Bhattacherjee

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas-Pan American, United States;University of South Florida, United States

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We have proposed a two-dimensional taxonomy of open source project governance, namely participation management and responsibility management. We have then formulated four hypotheses by linking the two dimensions to software maintenance time. These hypotheses were tested using maintenance data from 352 open source software projects. This study contributes to open source software maintenance literature by demonstrating the effects of the two governance dimensions on open source software maintenance outcomes.