Magnet or Sticky? Measuring Project Characteristics from the Perspective of Developer Attraction and Retention

• Item type: Journal(1)
• 公開日: 2016-03-15
• タイトル: Magnet or Sticky? Measuring Project Characteristics from the Perspective of Developer Attraction and Retention
• タイトル / 言語: en
• タイトル: Magnet or Sticky? Measuring Project Characteristics from the Perspective of Developer Attraction and Retention
• 言語: eng
• キーワード / 主題Scheme: Other
• キーワード / 主題: [特集：学生・若手研究者論文] Magnet, Sticky, Developer Transition, Open Source Software, Mining Software Repositories
• 資源タイプ / 資源タイプ識別子: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
• 資源タイプ: journal article
• 著者所属: Kyushu University
• 著者所属: Kyushu University
• 著者所属: McGill University
• 著者所属: Queen's University
• 著者所属: Kyushu University
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Kyushu University
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Kyushu University
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): McGill University
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Queen's University
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): Kyushu University
• 著者名: Kazuhiro, Yamashita; Yasutaka, Kamei; Shane, McIntosh; Ahmed, E.,Hassan; Naoyasu, Ubayashi
• 著者名(英): Kazuhiro, Yamashita; Yasutaka, Kamei; Shane, McIntosh; Ahmed, E. Hassan; Naoyasu, Ubayashi
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述: Open Source Software (OSS) is vital to both end users and enterprises. As OSS systems are becoming a type of infrastructure, long-term OSS projects are desired. For the survival of OSS projects, the projects need to not only retain existing developers, but also attract new developers to grow. To better understand how projects retain and attract contributors, our preliminary study aimed to measure the personnel attraction and retention of OSS projects using a pair of population migration metrics, called Magnet (personnel attraction) and Sticky (retention) metrics. Because the preliminary study analyzed only 90 projects and the 90 projects are not representative of GitHub, this paper extend the preliminary study to better understand the generalizability of the results by analyzing 16,552 projects of GitHub. Furthermore, we also add a pilot study to investigate the typical duration between releases to find more appropriate release duration. The study results show that (1) approximately 23% of developers remain in the same projects that the developers contribute to, (2) the larger projects are likely to attract and retain more developers, (3) 53% of terminal projects eventually decay to a state of fewer than ten developers and (4) 55% of attractive projects remain in an attractive category.; \n------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.24(2016) No.2 (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.24.339; ------------------------------
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述: Open Source Software (OSS) is vital to both end users and enterprises. As OSS systems are becoming a type of infrastructure, long-term OSS projects are desired. For the survival of OSS projects, the projects need to not only retain existing developers, but also attract new developers to grow. To better understand how projects retain and attract contributors, our preliminary study aimed to measure the personnel attraction and retention of OSS projects using a pair of population migration metrics, called Magnet (personnel attraction) and Sticky (retention) metrics. Because the preliminary study analyzed only 90 projects and the 90 projects are not representative of GitHub, this paper extend the preliminary study to better understand the generalizability of the results by analyzing 16,552 projects of GitHub. Furthermore, we also add a pilot study to investigate the typical duration between releases to find more appropriate release duration. The study results show that (1) approximately 23% of developers remain in the same projects that the developers contribute to, (2) the larger projects are likely to attract and retain more developers, (3) 53% of terminal projects eventually decay to a state of fewer than ten developers and (4) 55% of attractive projects remain in an attractive category.; \n------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.24(2016) No.2 (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.24.339; ------------------------------
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子タイプ: NCID
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子: AN00116647
• 書誌情報: 情報処理学会論文誌; 巻 57, 号 3, 発行日 2016-03-15
• ISSN / 収録物識別子タイプ: ISSN
• ISSN / 収録物識別子: 1882-7764