Social Structure of Free Software Communities

The social structure of free software communities Course: Dynamics of libre software communities Israel Herraiz <herraiz@gsyc.es> st A Coruña, December 1 2007 Master on Free Software

Summary Do you want to become a free software ● developer? How would you start? ● How would you approach an existing ● project? Is there any typical social structure in free ● software projects? Master on Free Software

FLOSS projects Projects are like any other human ● organization People assume different roles ● If you want to migrate from a role to ● another, what do you have to do? Do all the projects present a typical ● structure? Master on Free Software

Roles in FLOSS projects Users ● Occasional users – Power users – Bug reporters ● Bug fixers ● Developers ● Core developers ● Master on Free Software

Onion model Master on Free Software

Onion model migration Master on Free Software

Sequence User ● Start to participate in the community ● Report bugs ● Fix bugs ● Get a SCM account ● Master on Free Software

Challenge Find one of the main contributors in your ● project Find that developer in the mailing list ● Track her participation in the mailing lists ● Track her participation in the SCM ● Track her relative importance and ● absolute total contributions Who is your developer? ● Master on Free Software

Challenge Track the number of people participating ● in the user lists Track the number of people participating ● in the developer lists Track the number of people commiting ● changes All of these over time ● What is the ration among these ● parameters over time? Master on Free Software

Challenge Track the total amount of messages in the ● user and developers lists Track the total amount of changes ● All of these over time ● What are the ratios among these ● parameters? What about messages per person and ● commits per person? How do they evolve? Master on Free Software

References The social structure of Free and Open ● source software development The processes of joining in global ● distributed software projects Both papers included in the Moodle ● Master on Free Software

Social Structure of Free Software Communities

by Andrés Maneiro on Dec 07, 2007

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