DocumentCode
2126754
Title
Success of Open Source Projects: Patterns of Downloads and Releases with Time
Author
Israeli, Ayelet ; Feitelson, Dror G.
fYear
2007
fDate
30-31 Oct. 2007
Firstpage
87
Lastpage
94
Abstract
The success of software projects has many different facets: meeting user requirements, being developed within given budget and time constraints, and actually being used. We focus on one of them: the pattern of adoption by users, and its possible relationship with continued development. This is done based on readily available data for open source projects, namely their releases and downloads. Rather than just classifying projects as "successful" or "failure", we identify six distinct patterns of how the download rate changes with time that illuminate different aspects of successful or failed projects. "You\´re not thinking fourth dimensionally!" Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, Back To The Future III, scene 8
Keywords
Computer science; Costing; Data mining; Databases; Information systems; Layout; Open source software; Software engineering; Software systems; Time factors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software-Science, Technology & Engineering, 2007. SwSTE 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Herzlia, Israel
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3021-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SwSTE.2007.11
Filename
4384088
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