开源社区中已有开发者的合作行为分析

doi:10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2016.6A.112

计算机科学 ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (Z6): 476-479.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2016.6A.112

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开源社区中已有开发者的合作行为分析

陈丹,王星,何鹏,曾诚

湖北大学计算机与信息工程学院武汉430062,湖北大学计算机与信息工程学院武汉430062,湖北大学计算机与信息工程学院武汉430062;湖北省教育信息化工程技术研究中心武汉430062,湖北大学计算机与信息工程学院武汉430062;湖北省教育信息化工程技术研究中心武汉430062

出版日期:2018-11-14 发布日期:2018-11-14
基金资助:
本文受国家“九七三”重点基础研究发展规划项目基金(2014CB340401),国家自然科学基金(61273216,1,61202048,2),湖北省重大科技创新计划(2013AAA020),武汉市青年科技晨光计划(2014070404010232),国家科技支撑计划子课题(2012BAH07B01)资助

Towards Understanding Existing Developers’ Collaborative Behavior in OSS Communities

CHEN Dan, WANG Xing, HE Peng and ZENG Cheng

Online:2018-11-14 Published:2018-11-14

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 理解开发者的合作行为是促进开源社区协作开发的关键一步。已有文献主要对社区成员的加入与迁移展开研究,而对社区中已有开发者之间的实际合作行为关注甚少。主要从开发者的交互关系与个人技能两个角度出发,探析社区已有开发者如何建立新合作以及哪些因素影响他们的合作。应用Sourceforge.net平台公开的数据进行实验,结果表明不同的开发者的偏好合作模式不同,拓扑距离上的优势(“朋友的朋友”关系)对开发者间首次合作的影响不大,开发者之前的合作次数越多越有利于他们再次建立合作,而开发环境(操作系统)与开发者(管理)经验对合作也有明显的影响。所得结论有助于提高开源社区已有开发者的合作意识,促进社区的稳定与可持续性。

关键词: 开源软件社区,开发者合作网络,行为分析,偏好合作

Abstract: Understanding developers’ cooperative behavior is an essential step to meet the needs of collaborative deve-lopment activities.A number of studies have been carried out to explore the joining script of newcomers and the immigration process of developers in open-source software communities.However,few know about the actual collaborative behavior of existing developers in those communities.In this paper,we conducted an empirical study to gain an insight into how existing developers collaborate and which factors affect their collaborative behavior from the perspectives of both collective interaction and individual expertise.According to the data sets collected from the Sourceforge.net,the results show that different existing developers prefer different collaboration patterns,and short topological distance (also known as “friends of friends”) has very limited effect on their first collaboration,whereas the previous collaborations are positive to build new collaboration between the existing developers.By contrast,development environment (opera-ting system) and administrator experience seem to be important factors that affect their potential collaboration.The fin-dings are valueable for existing developers to maintain sufficient collaboration awareness,so as to improve the stability and sustainability of OSS communities.

Key words: OSS community,Developer collaboration network,Behavior analysis,Preferential collaboration

陈丹,王星,何鹏,曾诚. 开源社区中已有开发者的合作行为分析[J]. 计算机科学, 2016, 43(Z6): 476-479. https://doi.org/10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2016.6A.112

CHEN Dan, WANG Xing, HE Peng and ZENG Cheng. Towards Understanding Existing Developers’ Collaborative Behavior in OSS Communities[J]. Computer Science, 2016, 43(Z6): 476-479. https://doi.org/10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2016.6A.112

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