Paper Info
Title
Analysis of Coordination Between Developers and Users in the Apache Community
Abstract
Coordination is one of the keys for the success of open source software (OSS) communities because geographically distributed members need to collaborate on their work using communication tools (e.g., mailing lists, bulletin board systems, bug tracking systems, and so oil). In this paper, we investigated the informal social structure among developers and users by analyzing two mailing lists of developers and users in the Apache community based on betweenness centrality, one centrality measure proposed by Freeman. From the analysis results, we found that (1) participants with high betweenness coordinated activities between developers and users and (2) some participants have been functioning as coordinators in the community for a long time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_7
International Federation for Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
tracking system,social structure,betweenness centrality
World Wide Web,Bulletin board system,Mailing list,Computer science,Centrality,Tracking system,Betweenness centrality,Open source software
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
275
1571-5736
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yasutaka Kamei191050.52
Shinsuke Matsumoto220533.53
Hirotaka Maeshima380.50
Yoji Onishi480.50
Masao Ohira527520.89
Ken-ichi Matsumoto61396131.56