A longitudinal study on collaboration networks and decision to participate in a FLOSS community.
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Conaldi, Guido
ORCID: 0000-0003-3552-7307
and Tonellato, Marco
(2010)
A longitudinal study on collaboration networks and decision to participate in a FLOSS community.
In: WoPDaSD 2010: 5th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development, 2 Jun 2010, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Abstract
In this paper we conjecture that individual decisions of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) developers to take on a task are influenced by network relations generated by collaboration among project members. In order to explore our conjecture we collected data on a FLOSS project team consisting of 227 developers committed since 2002 to the development of a web browser. We reconstructed 2-mode co-collaboration networks (software developer by bug) in which a tie represents an action taken by a developer in order to solve a specific bug. Co-collaboration networks were collected at five points in time during a six-month development cycle of the software. We report and discuss results of longitudinal actor-based modeling that we specify to test for the influence of local network structures on developer's decision to take action on a specific bug. The study controls for bug-specific and developer-specific characteristics that may also affect developers' decisions exogenously. We also control for priority and severity levels assigned by the team to bugs in an attempt to manage voluntary contribution.
| Item Type: | Conference or Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | [1] Paper part of the WoPDaSD 2010: 5th Workshop on Public Data about Software Development. Co-located with The 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems, held 2 June 2010. Notre Dame, IN, USA. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Free/Libre Open Source, bug-fixing, self-managing teams, collaboration networks, stochastic actor oriented models (SAOM), SIENA Models, Network Motives. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Pre-2014 Departments: | School of Business |
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| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2019 16:48 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/5340 |
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