@conference {vlas2017evolutionary, title = {Evolutionary Software Requirements Factors and their Effect on Open Source Project Attractiveness}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)}, year = {2017}, month = {01/2017}, abstract = {Successful projects effectively manage their requirements. How the mix of different requirements evolves throughout a successful project life-cycle is poorly understood. Moreover, requirements practices may be changing, according to the authors of the New RE{\textemdash}a model of six critical requirements factors. The New RE focuses on leveraging existing components to create new functionality. This practice is also central to open-source development. Thus, to understand the proposed New RE model and its relationship to open-source development, in this study, we analyze over 200 projects from GitHub.com and compare them with a prior analysis of 31 projects from SourceForge. The results show that many of the proposed New RE factors are related to project attractiveness, which is important for open-source project success.}, url = {http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/41806/1/paper0657.pdf}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/paper0657.pdf}, author = {Vlas, Radu and Robinson, William and Vlas, Cristina} }