Abstract
Existing studies show that open source projects may enjoy high levels of socio-technical congruence despite their open and distributed character. Such observations are yet to be confirmed in the case of larger open source ecosystems in which developers contribute to different projects within the ecosystem. In this paper, we empirically study the relationships between the developer coordination activities and the project dependency structure in the Ruby ecosystem. Our motivation is to verify whether the ecosystem context maintains the high socio-technical congruence levels observed in many smaller scale FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) projects. Our study results show that the collaboration pattern among the developers in Ruby ecosystem is not necessarily shaped by the communication needs indicated by the dependencies among the ecosystem projects.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | OpenSym '14. Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Pages | 2:1-2:9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-3016-9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | International Symposium on Open Collaboration - Berlin, Germany Duration: 27 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | International Symposium on Open Collaboration |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Berlin |
| Period | 27/08/2014 → 29/08/2014 |