dc.contributor.author | Rainer, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gale, S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-06-10T10:03:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-06-10T10:03:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rainer , A & Gale , S 2005 , Evaluating the Quality and Quantity of Data on Open Source Software Projects . in Procs 1st Int Conf on Open Source Software . pp. 29-36 . | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/2076 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/2076 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we provide a preliminary evaluation of the quality and quantity of data on open source (OS) projects, provided at the SourceForge.net portal. We have derived a dataset of approximately 50000 projects from SourceForge. Using several indicators of project activity, we identify two samples from the entire dataset: the most active OS projects (a total of 456 projects, ~0.9% of the entire dataset), and those projects with active code development (5826 projects, ~11.6%). The number of projects that are active across all of our main indicators of activity account for less than 1% of the projects on the portal. This suggests that many OS projects being registered--on SourceForge are impulse projects, which do not gather sufficient interest from developers or users to activate those projects and make them successful . It also suggests that researchers, developers and users should be careful about how they use OS portals. | en |
dc.format.extent | 348043 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Procs 1st Int Conf on Open Source Software | |
dc.title | Evaluating the Quality and Quantity of Data on Open Source Software Projects | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Computer Science | |
rioxxterms.type | Other | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |