%0 Conference Proceedings %B 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) %D 2013 %T Analyzing Social Behavior of Software Developers Across Different Communication Channels %A Iqbal, Aftab %A M Karnstedt %A M Hausenblas %K communication %K developer %K social media %X Software developers use different project repositories (i.e., mailing list, bug tracking repositories, discussion forums etc.) to interact with each other or to solve software related problems. The growing interest in the usage of social media channels (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) have also attracted the open source software community and software developers to adopt an identity in order to disseminate project-related information to a wider audience. Much research has been carried out to analyze the social behavior of software developers in different project repositories but so far no one has tried to study the social communication patterns of developers in other social media channels. We in this paper presents a new dimension to the social aspects of software developers and study if the social communication patterns of software developers is different on project repositories and social media channels (i.e., Twitter). %B 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) %U http://index.ksi.edu/conf/seke/2013/cr/296.pdf %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/iqbal_a_et_al_june_2013.pdf %0 Journal Article %J ISRN Software Engineering %D 2013 %T Interlinking Developer Identities within and across Open Source Projects: The Linked Data Approach %A Iqbal, Aftab %A Hausenblas, Michael %K developer %K identity %K linked data %X Software developers use various software repositories in order to interact with each other or to solve related problems. These repositories provide a rich source of information for a wide range of tasks. However, one issue to overcome in order to make this information useful is the identification and interlinking of multiple identities of developers. In this paper, we propose a Linked Data-based methodology to interlink and integrate multiple identities of a developer found in different software repositories of a project as well as across repositories of multiple projects. Providing such interlinking will enable us to keep track of a developer’s activity not only within a single project but also across multiple projects. The methodology will be presented in general and applied to 5 Apache projects as a case study. Further, we show that the few methods suggested so far are not always appropriate to overcome the developer identification problem. %B ISRN Software Engineering %V 201330692164 %P 1 - 12 %8 2013 %N 42111–3 %! ISRN Software Engineering %R 10.1155/2013/58473110.1007/s10664-009-9110-310.1109/TSE.2005.7010.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_4 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/584731.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 8th working conference on Mining software repositories - MSR '11 %D 2011 %T How do developers blog? %A Maalej, Walid %A Pagano, Dennis %Y van Deursen, Arie %Y Xie, Tao %Y Zimmermann, Thomas %K blog %K communication %K developer %K eclipse %K gnome %K LDA %K postgres %K python %X We report on an exploratory study, which aims at understanding how software developers use social media compared to conventional development infrastructures. We analyzed the blogging and the committing behavior of 1,100 developers in four large open source communities. We observed that these communities intensively use blogs with one new entry about every 8 hours. A blog entry includes 14 times more words than a commit message. When analyzing the content of the blogs, we found that most popular topics represent high-level concepts such as functional requirements and domain concepts. Source code related topics are covered in less than 15% of the posts. Our results also show that developers are more likely to blog after corrective engineering and management activities than after forward engineering and re-engineering activities. Our findings call for a hypothesis-driven research to further understand the role of social media in software engineering and integrate it into development processes and tools. %B Proceedings of the 8th working conference on Mining software repositories - MSR '11 %I ACM Press %C New York, New York, USA %P 123-132 %8 05/2011 %@ 9781450305747 %! MSR '11 %R 10.1145/1985441.1985461 %0 Conference Proceedings %B Open Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011) %D 2011 %T Knowledge Homogeneity and Specialization in the Apache HTTP Server Project %A MacLean, Alexander C. %A Pratt, Landon J. %A Knutson, Charles D. %A Ringger, Eric K. %K apache %K commits %K developer %K email %K email archive %K LDA %K mailing list %K revision control %K revision history %K scm %K social network analysis %K specialization %K subversion %K svn %X We present an analysis of developer communication in the Apache HTTP Server project. Using topic modeling techniques we expose latent conceptual sub-communities arising from developer specialization within the greater developer population. However, we found that among the major contributors to the project, very little specialization exists. We present theories to explain this phenomenon, and suggest further research. %B Open Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011) %I Springer %P 106-122 %8 10/2011 %U http://sequoia.cs.byu.edu/lab/files/pubs/MacLean2011a.pdf %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/MacLean2011a.pdf %0 Conference Proceedings %B Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005) %D 2005 %T Development Success in Open Source Software Projects: Exploring the Impact of Copylefted Licenses %A Colazo, Jorge A. %A Fang, Yulin %A Neufeld, Derrick J. %K contributions %K copyleft %K developer %K developers %K membership %K productivity %K project success %K success %X Copyleft prevents the source code of open source software (OSS) from being privately appropriated. The ethos of the OSS movement suggests that volunteer developers may particularly value and contribute to copylefted projects. Based on social movement theory, we hypothesized that copylefted OSS projects are more likely than non-copylefted OSS projects to succeed in the development process, in terms of two key indicators: developer membership and developer productivity. We performed an exploratory study using data from 62 relevant OSS projects spanning an average of three years of development time. We found that copylefted projects were associated with higher developer membership and productivity. This is the first study to empirically test the relationship between copylefted licenses and OSS project success. Implications for OSS project initiators as well as future research directions are discussed. %B Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005) %U http://aisel.isworld.org/password.asp?Vpath=AMCIS/2005&\#38;PDFpath=OSSDAU01-1167.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B OSS2005: Open Source Systems %D 2005 %T An Investigation of Developer and User Activity In FLOSS Projects %A Gale, Stephen %K developer %K development %K FLOSS %K FLOSS project %K open source %K pattern %K portal %K project %X This document outlines research plans to investigate the evolution of a set of FLOSS (Free, Libre, and Open Source Software) projects and their communities by looking at patterns of developer and user activity through a combination of analysis of archived material and interaction with the project communities. The goal of the proposed research is to better understand the dynamics within FLOSS projects and how some projects become successful. %B OSS2005: Open Source Systems %P 307-308 %U http://pascal.case.unibz.it/handle/2038/712