Open Source Systems: Towards Robust Practices

13th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22-23, 2017, Proceedings

  • Federico Balaguer
  • Roberto Di Cosmo
  • Alejandra Garrido
  • Fabio Kon
  • Gregorio Robles
  • Stefano Zacchiroli
Open Access
Conference proceedings OSS 2017
Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 496)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Projects, Communication, and Participation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Considering the Use of Walled Gardens for FLOSS Project Communication
      Megan Squire
      Pages 3-13 Open Access
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    3. Investigating Relationships Between FLOSS Foundations and FLOSS Projects
      Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda
      Pages 14-22 Open Access
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    4. Designing for Participation: Three Models for Developer Involvement in Hybrid OSS Projects
      Hanna Mäenpää, Terhi Kilamo, Tommi Mikkonen, Tomi Männistö
      Pages 23-33 Open Access
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    5. Principled Evaluation of Strengths and Weaknesses in FLOSS Communities: A Systematic Mixed Methods Maturity Model Approach
      Sandro Andrade, Filipe Saraiva
      Pages 34-46 Open Access
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  3. Posters and Tools

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 47-47
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    2. Measuring Perceived Trust in Open Source Software Communities
      Mahbubul Syeed, Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda
      Pages 49-54 Open Access
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    3. The Open Source Officer Role – Experiences
      Carl-Eric Mols, Krzysztof Wnuk, Johan Linåker
      Pages 55-59 Open Access
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    4. Digging into the Eclipse Marketplace
      Jacob Krüger, Niklas Corr, Ivonne Schröter, Thomas Leich
      Pages 60-65 Open Access
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  4. Licensing, Strategies, and Practices

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 67-67
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    2. How are Developers Treating License Inconsistency Issues? A Case Study on License Inconsistency Evolution in FOSS Projects
      Yuhao Wu, Yuki Manabe, Daniel M. German, Katsuro Inoue
      Pages 69-79 Open Access
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    3. Addressing Lock-in, Interoperability, and Long-Term Maintenance Challenges Through Open Source: How Can Companies Strategically Use Open Source?
      Björn Lundell, Jonas Gamalielsson, Stefan Tengblad, Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi, Thomas Fischer, Gert Johansson et al.
      Pages 80-88 Open Access
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    4. Understanding the Effects of Practices on KDE Ecosystem Health
      Simone da Silva Amorim, John D. McGregor, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Christina von Flach Garcia Chavez
      Pages 89-100 Open Access
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    5. Challenges in Validating FLOSS Configuration
      Markus Raab, Gergö Barany
      Pages 101-114 Open Access
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  5. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 115-115
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    2. Progression and Forecast of a Curated Web-of-Trust: A Study on the Debian Project’s Cryptographic Keyring
      Gunnar Wolf, Víctor González Quiroga
      Pages 117-127 Open Access
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    3. Understanding When to Adopt a Library: A Case Study on ASF Projects
      Akinori Ihara, Daiki Fujibayashi, Hirohiko Suwa, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kenichi Matsumoto
      Pages 128-138 Open Access
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    4. Adoption of Academic Tools in Open Source Communities: The Debian Case Study
      Pietro Abate, Roberto Di Cosmo
      Pages 139-150 Open Access
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    5. Assessing Code Authorship: The Case of the Linux Kernel
      Guilherme Avelino, Leonardo Passos, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente
      Pages 151-163 Open Access
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book is open access under a CC BY license.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2017, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 2017. 

The 16 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS), including: licensing, strategies, and practices; case studies; projects, communication, and participation; tools; and project management, development and evaluation.

Keywords

collaboration FLOSS FOSS information systems Linux Open access open source software requirements engineering software development software engineering software maintenance software projects

Editors and affiliations

  • Federico Balaguer
    • 1
  • Roberto Di Cosmo
    • 2
  • Alejandra Garrido
    • 3
  • Fabio Kon
    • 4
  • Gregorio Robles
    • 5
  • Stefano Zacchiroli
    • 6
  1. 1.National University of La PlataLa PlataArgentina
  2. 2.Inria and Paris Diderot UniversityParisFrance
  3. 3.National University of La PlataLa PlataArgentina
  4. 4.University of São PauloSão PauloBrazil
  5. 5.Universidad Rey Juan CarlosMadridSpain
  6. 6.Paris Diderot University and InriaParisFrance

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57735-7
  • Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-57734-0
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-57735-7
  • Series Print ISSN 1868-4238
  • Series Online ISSN 1868-422X