A Health Index of Open Source Projects Focusing on Pareto Distribution of Developer’S Contribution
A Health Index of Open Source Projects Focusing on Pareto Distribution of Developer’s Contribution Hirohisa Aman∗, Aji Ery Burhandennyy, Sousuke Amasakiz, Tomoyuki Yokogawaz and Minoru Kawahara∗ ∗Center for Information Technology, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan yGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan zFaculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Okayama 719–1197, Japan Abstract—Open source software (OSS) products have been the popularity and the user assessment, they are based on the broadly utilized for the IT business as well as the personal use products rather than the project. Recently, there have been in recent years. Software companies can receive much benefit some studies focusing on the project operation, including the from OSS products in terms of cost to develop and maintain their products. However, there are also risks that products of contributions of OSS developers [2]. It would be promising to interest might become no longer being successfully maintained focus on the developers in order to discuss the project’s health by the OSS developers because a successful maintenance is not because their contributions drive the OSS project. While an obligation of developers. In order to evaluate a project’s health analysis of individual’s contribution must be beneficial, such from a perspective of a macroscopic trend analysis, this paper a detailed analysis tend to be unfit for capturing the entire focuses on the distribution of the developer’s contribution to an OSS project, and analyzes the relationships of distribution spectrum of the project. Therefore, in this paper, we will features with the quality of products.
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