On Tuesday 24 August 2010 13:19:22 Administrator wrote:
A core part of this information should be research and analysis of what actually happens rather than what people think does / should happen. Does anyone have any links to such research into how FLOSS communities actually behave? Has Novell / openSUSE done such analysis?
Do you mean research like the one on Fedora ("BETA: An Exploration of Fedora's Online Open Source Development Community")?
Andreas
Thanks Andreas. You're ahead of me. Anything like that for openSUSE? I was also thinking of a piece of research I read last week (and can no longer find) which analysed contributors' activities to projects in the community from the logs rather than from what people say. It showed (unsurprisingly) that very few people contribute the majority of activity, and that they do so over long periods of time. It also showed that very few areas have more than 1 or 2 active contributors, and that most projects die when their originators move on to other areas. But, as I said, I can no longer find that piece of research :-( David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org