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Characteristics of Sustainable OSS Projects: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

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Hideaki Hata,

Taiki Todo,

Saya Onoue,

Kenichi MatsumotoAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 15 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE.2015.9

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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How can we attract developers? What can we do to incentivize developers to write code? We started the study by introducing the population pyramid visualization to software development communities, called software population pyramids, and found a typical pattern in shapes. This pattern comes from the differences in attracting coding contributors and discussion contributors. To understand the causes of the differences, we then build game-theoretical models of the contribution situation. Based on these results, we again analyzed the projects empirically to support the outcome of the models, and found empirical evidence. The answers to the initial questions are clear. To incentivize developers to code, the projects should prepare documents, or the projects or third parties should hire developers, and these are what sustainable projects in Git Hub did in reality. In addition, making innovations to reduce the writing costs can also have an impact in attracting coding contributors.

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CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

May 2015

124 pages

ISBN:9781467370318

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IEEE Computer Society

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Published: 18 May 2015

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