Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla¶
Mockus, A., Fielding, R. T., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2002). Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla: Apache and Mozilla. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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- Lotka's Law
- Studies of large projects — the Linux kernel, major GitHub repositories — repeatedly find that commits per contributor are heavy-tailed: a small core of maintainers authors the large majority of changes, while a vast crowd of contributors each submits a single patch and never returns
This sourceCase studies of Apache and Mozilla that quantify open-source developer participation, core team size and code ownership.
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“we examine data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser.”
- Studies of large projects — the Linux kernel, major GitHub repositories — repeatedly find that commits per contributor are heavy-tailed: a small core of maintainers authors the large majority of changes, while a vast crowd of contributors each submits a single patch and never returns
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