Paper Info
Title
An investigation of work practices used by companies making contributions to established OSS projects.
Abstract
Professionals contribute to open source software (OSS) projects as part of their employment. Previous research has addressed motivations of individuals and the ways they engage with OSS projects. However, there is a lack of research which examines and explains work practices used by companies in their engagement with projects. Work practices used by companies to contribute to five established OSS projects are investigated through examination of the actions of employees in public communication channels and draw on our experiences when analysing engagement with the same projects. We find that companies utilise work practices for contributing which are congruent with the circumstances and their capabilities that support their short and long term needs. We find that companies contribute to OSS projects in different ways, such as employing core project developers, making donations, and joining project steering committees in order to advance strategic interests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3183519.3183531
ICSE (SEIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Open source software, company contribution, work practices
Systems engineering,Computer science,Software bug,Knowledge management,Open source software
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5659-6
1
0.36
References 
Authors
16
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Butler11246.51
Jonas Gamalielsson28113.11
Björn Lundell344247.13
Per Jonsson410.36
Johan Sjöberg531.61
Anders Mattsson6647.31
Niklas Rickö710.36
T Gustavsson825930.65
Jonas Feist9173.68
Stefan Landemoo1020.71
Erik Lönroth1131.42