%0 Journal Article %J Information & Management %D 2009 %T Volunteers' involvement in online community based software development %A Bo Xu %A Donald R. Jones %A Bingjia Shao %K age %K developers %K effectiveness %K function points %K ideology %K leadership %K MOTIVATION %K scm %K sourceforge %K status %K Survey %K team size %K Volunteers %X We sought to gain understanding of voluntary developers' involvement in open source software (OSS) projects. Data were collected from voluntary developers working on open source projects. Our findings indicated that a voluntary developer's involvement was very important to his or her performance and that involvement was dependent on individual motivations (personal software needs, reputation and skills gaining expectation, enjoyment in open source coding) and project community factors (leadership effectiveness, interpersonal relationship, community ideology). Our work contributes theoretically and empirically to the body of OSS research and has practical implications for OSS project management. %B Information & Management %V 46 %P 151 - 158 %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VD0-4VP1CN0-1/2/8e1c7be4fcedd1419209c5c843ffa923 %R DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2008.12.005 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Database Management %D 2008 %T Bug Fixing Practices within Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams %A Kevin Crowston %A Barbara Scozzi %K activity %K bug tracker %K bug tracking system %K coordination %K downloads %K dynapi %K effectiveness %K FLOSS %K gaim %K kicq %K phpmyadmin %K project success %K size %K status %X Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activity almost exclusively by means of email and bulletin boards, yet some how profit from the advantages and evade the challenges of distributed software development. In this article we investigate the structure and the coordination practices adopted by development teams during the bug-fixing process, which is considered one of main areas of FLOSS project success. In particular, based on a codification of the messages recorded in the bug tracking system of four projects, we identify the accomplished tasks, the adopted coordination mechanisms, and the role undertaken by both the FLOSS development team and the FLOSS community. We conclude with suggestions for further research. %B Journal of Database Management %V 19 %P 1–30 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/CrowstonScozziJDBM2008.pdf %0 Journal Article %J MIS Quarterly %D 2006 %T The Impact of Ideology on Effectiveness in Open Source Software Development Teams %A Stewart, K. %A Gosain, S. %K bug fixing %K bug reports %K bug tracking %K communication %K COMMUNITY %K effectiveness %K feature requests %K ideology %K metadata %K sourceforge %K Survey %K team effort %K team size %K trust %X The emerging work on understanding open source software has argued for the importance of understanding what leads to effectiveness in OSS development teams and has pointed to the importance of ideology. This paper develops a framework of the OSS ideology (including specific norms, beliefs, and values) and a theoretical model to show how adherence to components of the ideology impact effectiveness in OSS teams. The model is based on the idea that ideology provides clan control, which is important in OSS development settings because OSS teams generally lack formal behavioral and outcome controls. The paper hypothesizes both direct effects of ideology on OSS team effectiveness and indirect effects via influences on affective trust, cognitive trust, and communication quality. Hypotheses are tested using survey and objective data on OSS projects. Four effectiveness measures are used to capture unique aspects of effectiveness in OSS including both the extent to which a team attracts input from the community and the team's success in accomplishing project outcomes. Results support the main thesis that OSS team members' adherence to the tenets of the OSS community ideology enhances OSS team effectiveness. The study uncovers several differences in the importance of OSS norms, beliefs, and values to different kinds of OSS team effectiveness and discusses implications for theory and practice. %B MIS Quarterly %V 30 %P 291-314 %8 2006 %G eng %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/stewartgosain2.pdf