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Understanding Contributor to Developer Turnover Patterns in OSS Projects : A Case Study of Apache Projects

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Iqbal, Aftab
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	OSS projects are dynamic in nature. Developers contribute to a project for a certain period of time and later leaves the project or join other projects of high interest. Hence, the OSS community always welcome members who can attain the role of a developer in a project. In this paper, we investigate contributions made by members who have attained the role of a developer. In particular, we study the contributions made by the members in terms of bugs reported, comments on bugs, source-code patch submissions and their social relation with other members of an OSS community. Further, we study the significance of non-developers contribution and investigate if and to what extent they play a role in the long term survival of an OSS project. Moreover, we investigate the ratio of contributions made by a member before and after attaining the role of a developer. We have outlined 4 research questions in this regard and further discuss our findings based on the research questions by taking into account data from software repositories of 4 different Apache projects. Keywords-oss, mining software repositories, contributor’s turnover, global software development, case study
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Open Sound System Software bug Software developer Software development Software repository
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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