Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.

As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS...

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Autores principales:	Tadeusz Chełkowski, Dariusz Jemielniak, Kacper Macikowski
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c480593b96e14f85acb5642d6ef613a2
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c480593b96e14f85acb5642d6ef613a22021-12-02T20:06:10ZFree and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257192https://doaj.org/article/c480593b96e14f85acb5642d6ef613a22021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257192https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS activities on the projects and organizations level, such as commits frequency, source code lines, and code comments, we find that there is less activity now than there was a decade ago. Moreover, our results suggest a greater decrease in the activities in large and well-established FOSS organizations. Our findings indicate that as technologies and business strategies related to FOSS mature, the role of large formal FOSS organizations serving as intermediary between developers diminishes.Tadeusz ChełkowskiDariusz JemielniakKacper MacikowskiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257192 (2021)
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description	As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS activities on the projects and organizations level, such as commits frequency, source code lines, and code comments, we find that there is less activity now than there was a decade ago. Moreover, our results suggest a greater decrease in the activities in large and well-established FOSS organizations. Our findings indicate that as technologies and business strategies related to FOSS mature, the role of large formal FOSS organizations serving as intermediary between developers diminishes.
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title	Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.
title_short	Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.
title_full	Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.
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title_full_unstemmed	Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.
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Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency.

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