Trust issues in open source software development

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Title	Trust issues in open source software development
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2009
Authors	Orsila, H, Geldenhuys, J, Ruokonen, A, Hammouda, I
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the Warm Up Workshop for ACM/IEEE ICSE 2010
Pagination	9–12
Publisher	ACM
Place Published	New York, NY, USA
ISBN Number	978-1-60558-565-9
Keywords	ffmpeg, trust, version control, zlib
Abstract	Open source software and the associated development model holds great promise, but the issue of trust is a major challenge. This applies to companies wishing to adopt the open source model but also within open source projects. We investigate this issue by data mining open source repositories to study two related phenomena: update propagation and distributed version control.
Notes	"We have selected two highly reusable libraries, zlib and FFmpeg. The software repository of the projects were downloaded, but mining the information is not an easy task and we considered various sources — such as bug reports, mailing lists, IRC conversations, and source code comments — in addition to the revision history. "
URL	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1527033.1527037
DOI	10.1145/1527033.1527037
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