%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) %D 2017 %T Evolutionary Software Requirements Factors and their Effect on Open Source Project Attractiveness %A Vlas, Radu %A Robinson, William %A Vlas, Cristina %X 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—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. %B Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) %8 01/2017 %U http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/41806/1/paper0657.pdf %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/paper0657.pdf %0 Conference Proceedings %B Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 48 %D 2015 %T Data Mining Behavioral Transitions in Open Source Repositories %A Robinson, William %A Tianjie Deng %X Open-source repository data can be automatically mined using sequence mining methods to provide high-level feedback on project status. GitHub.com projects are acquired, sequence-mined, clustered, and regressed to analyze project characteristics. Such results can be presented to project managers, as part of a display generated by an automated monitoring system. Such monitoring systems provide high-level feedback in real-time. This project is a preliminary step in a larger research project aimed at understanding and monitoring FLOSS projects using this process modeling approach. %B Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 48 %I IEEE %P 5280-5289 %0 Conference Proceedings %B Open Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011) %D 2011 %T Towards a Unified Definition of Open Source Quality %A Ruiz, Claudia %A Robinson, William %K literature review %K measurement %K open source %K quality %K Software %X Software quality needs to be specified and evaluated in order to determine the success of a development project, but this is a challenge with Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) because of its permanently emergent state. This has not deterred the growth of the assumption that FLOSS is higher quality than traditionally developed software, despite of mixed research results. With this literature review, we found the reason for these mixed results is that that quality is being defined, measured, and evaluated differently. We report the most popular definitions, such as software structure measures, process measures, such as defect fixing, and maturity assessment models. The way researchers have built their samples has also contributed to the mixed results with different project properties being considered and ignored. Because FLOSS projects are evolving, their quality is too, and it must be measured using metrics that take into account its community’s commitment to quality rather than just its software structure. Challenges exist in defining what constitutes a defect or bug, and the role of modularity in affecting FLOSS quality. %B Open Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011) %I Springer %P 17-33 %8 10/2011