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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Khondhu, J | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Capiluppi, A | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Stol, K-J | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-18T14:54:22Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-18T14:54:22Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | 9th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2013, Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, June 25-28, 2013. Proceedings: Open Source Software: Quality Verification (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), Vol 404, 61 - 79, 2013 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-642-38927-6 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_5 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8041 | - |
| dc.description | This is the post-print version of the published chapter. The original publication is available at the link below. Copyright @ 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Open Source Software (OSS) proponents suggest that when developers lose interest in their project, their last duty is to “hand it off to a competent successor.” However, the mechanisms of such a hand-off are not clear, or widely known among OSS developers. As a result, many OSS projects, after a certain long period of evolution, stop evolving, in fact becoming “inactive” or “abandoned” projects. This paper presents an analysis of the population of projects contained within one of the largest OSS repositories available (SourceForge.net), in order to describe how projects abandoned by their developers can be identified, and to discuss the attributes and characteristics of these inactive projects. In particular, the paper attempts to differentiate projects that experienced maintainability issues from those that are inactive for other reasons, in order to be able to correlate common characteristics to the “failure” of these projects. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | en_US |
| dc.subject | Open source | en_US |
| dc.subject | Inactive projects | en_US |
| dc.subject | Maintainability index | en_US |
| dc.title | Is it all lost? A study of inactive open source projects | en_US |
| dc.type | Book Chapter | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_5 | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Active Staff | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Active Staff/School of Info. Systems, Comp & Maths | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics - URCs and Groups | - |
| pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics - URCs and Groups/Centre for Information and Knowledge Management | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Publications Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers | |
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