Eckert, Remo; Mueller, Andreas (October 2017). Sustainability and Diversity of Open Source Software Communities: Analysis of the Android Open Source Project (Submitted). In: The Twelfth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. Athens, Greece. 08-12.10.2017.
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Open Source Software (OSS) projects rely on the efforts of thousands of software developers. The sustainability and diversity of these communities are two important factors for the longterm viability of OSS communities. This paper reviews the research on OSS sustainability and diversity. Drawing on the findings of measures on sustainability and diversity, we applied a number of the established metrics to the Android Open Source Project and found that over a third of all contributions originate from Google. Surprisingly, in 2015 we saw a decrease in the total number of contributors within the Android project. Findings from our analysis highlight the importance of sustainability and diversity for the development of OSS.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems > Information Management 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems |
UniBE Contributor: |
Eckert, Remo |
Subjects: |
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Remo Eckert |
Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2017 07:53 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:07 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.105167 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/105167 |
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