Evolution in open source software¶
Godfrey, M. W., & Qiang Tu. (2000). Evolution in open source software: a case study. Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance ICSM-94.
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- Lehman's law of continuing change
- Empirical software evolution — the home turf, where the law is the first of the eight Lehman laws; Belady and Lehman's OS/360 longitudinal data established it and FOSS replications (Godfrey and Tu, Israeli and Feitelson on Linux) confirm this first law in particular — both find against other laws in the set, Godfrey and Tu reporting super-linear Linux growth that contradicts the inverse-square growth-rate hypothesis
This sourceThe first of the two open-source replications: a release-history study of the Linux kernel showing sustained, unabated change and growth, whose own super-linear growth finding the authors present as contradicting Lehman and Turski's inverse-square growth hypothesis.
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- Empirical software evolution — the home turf, where the law is the first of the eight Lehman laws; Belady and Lehman's OS/360 longitudinal data established it and FOSS replications (Godfrey and Tu, Israeli and Feitelson on Linux) confirm this first law in particular — both find against other laws in the set, Godfrey and Tu reporting super-linear Linux growth that contradicts the inverse-square growth-rate hypothesis
- Lehman's law of continuing growth
- Longitudinal evidence comes from Linux kernel line-count growth across twenty-five years (documented by Godfrey and Tu in 2000 and extended subsequently)
This sourceGodfrey and Tu's finding of sustained super-linear growth in the Linux kernel's source size. Godfrey and Tu's 2000 study of the evolution of the Linux kernel, which found it growing at a super-linear rate for several years. Godfrey and Tu's finding that Linux kept growing at a super-linear rate rather than plateauing, measured in lines of source code.
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“we have found that Linux has been growing at a super-linear rate for several years”
- Longitudinal evidence comes from Linux kernel line-count growth across twenty-five years (documented by Godfrey and Tu in 2000 and extended subsequently)
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