@inbook {1612, title = {A Layered Approach to Managing Risks in OSS Projects}, booktitle = {Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies}, series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology}, volume = {427}, year = {2014}, pages = {168-171}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, abstract = { In this paper, we propose a layered approach to managing risks in OSS projects. We define three layers: the first one for defining risk drivers by collecting and summarising available data from different data sources, including human-provided contextual information; the second layer, for converting these risk drivers into risk indicators; the third layer for assessing how these indicators impact the business of the adopting organisation. The contributions are: 1) the complexity of gathering data is isolated in one layer using appropriate techniques, 2) the context needed to interpret this data is provided by expert involvement evaluating risk scenarios and answering questionnaires in a second layer, 3) a pattern-based approach and risk reasoning techniques to link risks to business goals is proposed in the third layer. }, keywords = {Layered Model, open source, OSS, Risk Management}, isbn = {978-3-642-55127-7}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_23}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_23}, author = {Franch, Xavier and Kenett, Ron and Mancinelli, Fabio and Susi, Angelo and Ameller, David and Ben-Jacob, Ron and Siena, Alberto}, editor = {Corral, Luis and Sillitti, Alberto and Succi, Giancarlo and Vlasenko, Jelena and Wasserman, AnthonyI.} } @conference {661, title = {EDOS-Tools Tutorial: EDOS Tools for Linux Distributions Dependencies Management and Quality Assurance}, booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)}, series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing }, volume = {234/2007}, year = {2007}, month = {2007///}, pages = {363 - 364}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, chapter = {45}, abstract = {Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) distributions are the results of the effort of third party actors in collecting independently developed software products, in a consistent and usable form. The widespread adoption of these distributions as infrastructural components in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding how to handle the complexity of assembling and managing a huge number of (packaged) components and how to guarantee their quality. This tutorial will describe how the EDOS project has tackled these issues. First it will describe the problems related to the quality assurance of Linux distributions and will present the tools that have been developed to manage testing process. It will then introduce the problems that occur when managing inter-package relations in large package repositories and will showcase tools that can be used to analyze and manage large package repositories. }, issn = {978-0-387-72485-0}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_45}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/EDOIS-\%20Tools\%20Tutorials.pdf}, author = {D{\'e}chelle, Fran{\c c}ois and Mancinelli, Fabio} }