TY - GEN
T1 - Success of open source projects
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Software - Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'07
AU - Israeli, Ayelet
AU - Feitelson, Dror G.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The success of software projects has many different facets: meeting user requirements, being developed within given budget and time constraints, and actually being used. We focus on one of them: the pattern of adoption by users, and its possible relationship with continued development. This is done based on readily available data for open source projects, namely their releases and downloads. Rather than just classifying projects as "successful" or "failure", we identify six distinct patterns of how the download rate changes with time that illuminate different aspects of successful or failed projects.
AB - The success of software projects has many different facets: meeting user requirements, being developed within given budget and time constraints, and actually being used. We focus on one of them: the pattern of adoption by users, and its possible relationship with continued development. This is done based on readily available data for open source projects, namely their releases and downloads. Rather than just classifying projects as "successful" or "failure", we identify six distinct patterns of how the download rate changes with time that illuminate different aspects of successful or failed projects.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=47849119025&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/swste.2007.4384088
DO - 10.1109/swste.2007.4384088
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AN - SCOPUS:47849119025
SN - 0769530214
SN - 9780769530215
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Software - Science, Technology and Engineering, SwSTE'07
SP - 87
EP - 94
BT - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Software - Science, Technologyand Engineering, SwSTE'07
Y2 - 30 October 2007 through 31 October 2007
ER -