Adapting the "staged model for software evolution" to free/libre/open source software
Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting
Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects
Journal of Systems and Software
Quality Factors and Coding Standards -- a Comparison Between Open Source Forges
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics
SpringSim '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference
User generated (web) content: trash or treasure
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
Factors affecting the success of Open Source Software
Journal of Systems and Software
An approach for evaluating FOSS projects for student participation
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects are a form of commons where individuals work collectively to produce software that is a public, rather than a private, good. The famous phrase "Tragedy of the Commons" describes a situation where a natural resource commons, such as a pasture, or a water supply, gets depleted because of overuse. The tragedy in FLOSS commons is distinctly different -- it occurs when collective action ceases before a software product is produced or reaches its full potential. This paper builds on previous work about defining success in FLOSS projects by taking a collective action perspective. We first report the results of interviews with FLOSS developers regarding our ideas about success and failure in FLOSS projects. Building on those interviews and previous work, we then describe our criteria for defining success/tragedy in FLOSS commons. Finally, we discuss the results of a preliminary classification of nearly all projects hosted on Sourceforge.net as of August 2006.