Developer experience · Five-year empirical study
Findings from a study of open source software projects
International Journal of the Commons. · 2014
Summary
Project practices and governance arrangements vary; commons sustainability requires attention to social and institutional conditions.
For your marketing
Possible founder application
Treat governance rules, stewardship and shared infrastructure as product assets.
Reported result
What the study found
Project practices and governance arrangements vary; commons sustainability requires attention to social and institutional conditions.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What governance and sustainability patterns appear across OSS projects?
Design
Five-year empirical study
Sample and setting
FOSS projects treated as commons
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Abstract evidence; project sample and period constrain generalization.
Research sources
Publisher DOI landing page abstract; design, context and findings are taken from the abstract.