TY - GEN
T1 - Behind Linus's law
T2 - 2011 12th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011
AU - Wang, Jing
AU - Carroll, John M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Open source is an important model of collaborative knowledge work and virtual organizations. One of its work practices, peer review, is considered critical to its success, as Linus's law highlights. Thus, understanding open source peer review, particular effective review practices, will improve the understanding of how to support collaborative work in new ways. Therefore, we conduct case studies in two open source communities that are well recognized as effective and successful, Mozilla and Python. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of our analysis on data from the bug tracking systems of those two organizations. We identify four common activities critical to open source software peer review, submission, identification, resolution and evaluation. Differences between communities indicate factors, such as reporter expertise, product type and structure, and organization size, affect review activities. We also discuss features of open source software peer review distinct from traditional review, as well as reconsiderations of Linus's law.
AB - Open source is an important model of collaborative knowledge work and virtual organizations. One of its work practices, peer review, is considered critical to its success, as Linus's law highlights. Thus, understanding open source peer review, particular effective review practices, will improve the understanding of how to support collaborative work in new ways. Therefore, we conduct case studies in two open source communities that are well recognized as effective and successful, Mozilla and Python. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of our analysis on data from the bug tracking systems of those two organizations. We identify four common activities critical to open source software peer review, submission, identification, resolution and evaluation. Differences between communities indicate factors, such as reporter expertise, product type and structure, and organization size, affect review activities. We also discuss features of open source software peer review distinct from traditional review, as well as reconsiderations of Linus's law.
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U2 - 10.1109/CTS.2011.5928673
DO - 10.1109/CTS.2011.5928673
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83255171005
SN - 9781612846378
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011
SP - 117
EP - 124
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011
Y2 - 23 May 2011 through 27 May 2011
ER -