Title :
Finding the Core Developers
Author :
Geldenhuys, Jaco
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. Sci., Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa
Abstract :
It has been suggested that 20% of the participants in a free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) project contribute 80% of the work. This paper attempts to verify this claim for nine projects and for various metrics of user activity such as the number of contributions, duration of involvement with the project, and the number of modifications to source code files.
Keywords :
formal verification; public domain software; software management; software metrics; FLOSS project; core developer; free-libre-open source software; source code file; Correlation; Linux; Measurement; Open source software; Servers;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lille
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7901-6
DOI :
10.1109/SEAA.2010.66
