Paper Info
Title
A tailored participatory action research for foss communities.
Abstract
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an established method to implement change in organizations. However, it cannot be applied in the open source (FOSS) communities, without adaptation to their particularities, especially to the specific control mechanisms developed in FOSS. FOSS communities are self-managed, and rely on consensus to reach decisions. This study proposes a PAR framework specifically tailored to FOSS communities. We successfully applied the framework to implement a set of quality assurance interventions in the Robot Operating System community. The framework we proposed is composed of three components, interventions design, democratization, and execution. We believe that this process will work for other FOSS communities too. We have learned that changing a particular aspect of a FOSS community is arduous. To achieve success the change must rally the community around it for support and attract motivated volunteers to implement the interventions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10664-020-09849-0
EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Participatory Action Research,FOSS,Change implementation
Journal
25.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5.0
1382-3256
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam Alami162.55
Peter Axel Nielsen254747.07
Andrzej Wasowski3128260.47