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An Open Source Eco-System?
To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE) […]
The Catalyst Effect in FLOSS Repositories
April 26, 2010
In the course of my PhD studies, I proposed that when a project makes a transition from one repository to another, you could expect to see significant changes to a project’s evolutionary characteristics. Indeed, I covered this in earlier posts, discussing the transition from SourceForge to Debian. Here, we saw that the number of developers […]
Continuing the Empirical Results: Anti-Regressive Work
April 19, 2010
It has been a while since I wrote about my research into FLOSS, for which there are a few reasons. When last I wrote I was approaching my PhD defence, and for the whole PhD process to come to an end I had to wait until January this year, when my thesis was officially approved. […]
The Six-Way Epic: Digging Further into FLOSS Repositories
September 1, 2009
Not too long ago, I announced the publishing of my first journal article co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. My mother was very proud — even if she did not understand a single word of it. I will give a brief summary of the article in this post, and if I succeed in whetting […]
Journal Publication Confirmed
March 25, 2009
Excellent. The journal publication I co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff (“Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects”) has now been confirmed for publication in the May 2009 edition of Journal of Systems and Software. It is currently available online.
Debian vs. SourceForge – Round 3
February 22, 2009
The tour through the comparison between Debian and SourceForge comes to a close by questioning whether Debian acts as a catalyst to evolutionary activity when a project is inserted into the repository. It has already been strongly suggested that projects packaged in Debian are recipients of significantly greater rates of activity. Of the 50 projects […]
Debian vs. SourceForge – Round 2
February 10, 2009
And so, we revisit the posers put up in a previous post: Are Debian’s evolutionary characteristics significantly different to those of SourceForge? Does Debian act as a catalyst? To answer these questions, we took a closer look at the software inside them. I’ll briefly explain the method here, but details of the steps will be […]
Debian vs. SourceForge – Round 1
February 3, 2009
We all know about SourceForge and Debian. Although they have different purposes, they both act as repositories of free software, and most of the practitioners will know that Debian hosts what is considered to be the best projects — judged most worthy by its army of package maintainers. Conversely, many (but by no means all) […]
September 6, 2010
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