Innovation Diffusion in Open Source Software: Preliminary Analysis of Dependency Changes in the Gentoo Portage Package Database

TitleInnovation Diffusion in Open Source Software: Preliminary Analysis of Dependency Changes in the Gentoo Portage Package Database
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsBloemen, R, Amrit, C, Kuhlmann, S, Ordóñez–Matamoros, G
Secondary TitleProceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Pagination316–319
PublisherACM
Place PublishedNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-2863-0
Keywordsdependencies, gentoo, graph, INNOVATION
Abstract

In this paper we make the case that software dependencies are a form of innovation adoption. We then test this on the time-evolution of the Gentoo package dependency graph. We find that the Bass model of innovation diffusion fits the growth of the number of packages depending on a given library. Interestingly, we also find that low-level packages have a primarily imitation driven adoption and multimedia libraries have primarily innovation driven growth.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2597073.2597079
DOI10.1145/2597073.2597079
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