Paper Info
Title
Investigating the Interrelationships among Success Measures of Open Source Software Projects.
Abstract
Open source software (OSS) has attracted extensive attention from researchers and scholars. This increasing attention is a result of the remarkable growth in the number of OSS applications in recent years. Despite an increased number of studies on OSS project success, the interrelationships among different success indicators of OSS projects are not well understood in literature. The present study reports on the interrelationships between the success measures of OSS projects, as defined by the ability of the project to attract user and developer interest, release management, project activity, and development sustainability. To test the relationships hypothesized, we gathered data from 1409 OSS projects over time (in two snapshots over a period of eight months). The results show the following: (a) project activity until any time period positively impacts the subsequent period's developer interest and development sustainability; (b) development sustainability positively drives user and developer interest; (c) release frequency positively influences the next period's developer interest, as well as development sustainability; (d) developer interest positively drives user interest. These findings have implications for both the OSS research community and OSS practitioners.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/10919392.2015.990775
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
open source software project,software project management,success measures' interrelationships,development sustainability,OSS project success
Information system,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software project management,Release management,Open source software,Sustainability,Project success
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
1
1091-9392
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
23
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amir Hossein Ghapanchi115717.27