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Who Drive Company-Owned OSS Projects: Employees or Volunteers?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dias, Luiz Felipe Santos, Jhoylan Steinmacher, Igor Pinto, Gustavo |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | It is well known that Open-source software (OSS) communities leverage the workforce of volunteers to keep the projects sustainable. Some companies support open-source software projects by paying developers to contribute, while others share their products under open-source licenses keeping their employees in charge of maintaining the projects. In this paper, we investigate who drives open-source products: paid (internal) or non-paid (external) developers. We explore two wellknown, open-source software: atom and hubot. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches, we found that both internal and external developers are rather active, when it comes to pull-requests submitted, and that the projects are very receptive for external developers. Considering both projects, internal developers are responsible for 45.54% and external developers placed 54.46% of the pull-requests. Finally, we observed that external developers' contributions range from documentation to complex code. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://gustavopinto.org/lost+found/vem2017.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://igor.pro.br/publica/papers/VEM_2017a.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
