Computer Science ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (12): 43-46.

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Evolution of Contributors in Open Source Software Development

LI Qi-feng and LI Bing   

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

Abstract: Open source software development is heavily based on voluntary contributions.Developers are self-selected.But as open source software projects evolve,changes in the development team affect their organization and decision structure.New members enter the group and others leave.From the related research it is known that a small group of very active developers are responsible in general for the proper evolution of a project.But it does not attend to the time axis that evolution requires.In this paper,we analyzed how software developers evolve in open source software projects.As case studies,we selected GNU/Linux for researching the behavior of contributors to work on a open source software project.Our aim is to give quantitative insight about the evolution of maintainers.We studied how many these develo-pers remain from the beginning of the project and what happens to packages maintained by those developers who left the project.

Key words: Open source software,Developer,Co-evolution

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