@conference {719,
	title = {Evaluating the Quality and Quantity of Data on Open Source Software Projects},
	booktitle = {OSS2005: Open Source Systems },
	year = {2005},
	pages = {29-36},
	abstract = {In this paper, we provide a preliminary evaluation of the quality and quantity of data on open source (OS) projects, provided at the SourceForge.net portal. We have derived a dataset of approximately 50000 projects from SourceForge. Using several indicators of project activity, we identify two samples from the entire dataset: the {\textquoteleft}most active{\textquoteright} OS projects (a total of 456 projects, ~0.9\% of the entire dataset), and those projects with active code development (5826 projects, ~11.6\%). The number of projects that are active across all of our main indicators of activity account for less than 1\% of the projects on the portal. This suggests that many OS projects being registered on SourceForge are {\textquoteleft}impulse{\textquoteright} projects, which do not gather sufficient interest from developers or users to {\textquoteleft}activate{\textquoteright} those projects and make them {\textquoteleft}successful{\textquoteright}. It also suggests that researchers, developers and users should be careful about how they use OS portals.},
	url = {http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/733},
	author = {Rainer, Austen and Gale, Stephen}
}
