DocumentCode :
3292459
Title :
Describing the Software Forge Ecosystem
Author :
Squire, Megan ; Williams, David
fYear :
2012
fDate :
4-7 Jan. 2012
Firstpage :
3416
Lastpage :
3425
Abstract :
Code forges are online software systems that are designed to support teams doing software development work. There have been few if any attempts in the research literature to describe the web of people, projects, and tools that make up the free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) forge ecosystem. The main contributions of this paper are (1) to introduce a classification of FLOSS-oriented forges according to their characteristics, (2) to describe the forge-level and project-level data and artifacts currently available at each FLOSS forge, (3) to show various patterns already discovered in the FLOSS forge ecosystem, such as timelines of creation or arrangements by size or feature, (4) to make some recommendations to forge providers and data collectors about how to expose the structure and information in the forges, and (5) to describe the effort needed to extend our publicly-available information about the FLOSS forge ecosystem into the future.
Keywords :
public domain software; software engineering; FLOSS-oriented forges classification; code forges; online software system; open source forge ecosystem; software development work; software forge ecosystem; Collaboration; Data models; Ecosystems; Internet; Licenses; Software; Writing; data; forges; open source; repositories; sofware engineering; sourceforge;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
ISSN :
1530-1605
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1925-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2012.197
Filename :
6149238
Link To Document :
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