Open source systems : grounding research : 7th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2011, Salvador, Brazil, October 6-7, 2011, proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 industrial full papers, 8 lightning talks and 2 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: OSS quality and reliability, OSS products, review of technologies of and for OSS, knowledge and research building in OSS, OSS reuse, integration, and compliance, OSS value and economics, OSS adoption in industry, and mining OSS repositories. Front Matter....Pages - To Fork or Not to Fork: Fork Motivations in SourceForge Projects....Pages 259-268 An Analysis of Author Contribution Patterns in Eclipse Foundation Project Source Code....Pages 269-281 Cliff Walls: An Analysis of Monolithic Commits Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation....Pages 282-298 Knowledge Homogeneity and Specialization in the Apache HTTP Server Project....Pages 106-122 Building Knowledge in Open Source Software Research in Six Years of Conferences....Pages 123-141 The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software....Pages 142-158 Successful Reuse of Software Components: A Report from the Open Source Perspective....Pages 159-176 License Update and Migration Processes in Open Source Software Projects....Pages 177-195 A Historical Account of the Value of Free and Open Source Software: From Software Commune to Commercial Commons....Pages 196-207 Framing the Conundrum of Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software....Pages 208-219 Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects....Pages 1-16 Towards a Unified Definition of Open Source Quality....Pages 17-33 Ginga-J - An Open Java-Based Application Environment for Interactive Digital Television Services....Pages 34-49 Developing Architectural Documentation for the Hadoop Distributed File System....Pages 50-61 Libre Software as an Innovation Enabler in India Experiences of a Bangalorian Software SME....Pages 220-232 Adoption of OSS Development Practices by the Software Industry: A Survey....Pages 233-243 Towards Improving OSS Products Selection – Matching Selectors and OSS Communities Perspectives....Pages 244-258 Modding as an Open Source Approach to Extending Computer Game Systems....Pages 62-74 Preparing FLOSS for Future Network Paradigms: A Survey on Linux Network Management....Pages 75-89 A Review of Tool Support for User-Related Communication in FLOSS Development....Pages 90-105 Package Upgrade Robustness: An Analysis for GNU/Linux ® Package Management Systems....Pages 299-306 Applying Open Source Practices and Principles in Open Innovation: The Case of the Demola Platform....Pages 307-311 KommGame: A Reputation Environment for Teaching Open Source Software....Pages 312-315 Virtual Health Information Infrastructures: A Scalable Regional Model....Pages 316-319 Something of a Potemkin Village? Acid2 and Mozilla’s Efforts to Comply with HTML4....Pages 320-324 Aspects of an Open Source Software Sustainable Life Cycle....Pages 325-329 Open Source and Open Data: Business Perspectives from the Frontline....Pages 330-333 Forge.mil: A Case Study for Utilizing Open Source Methodologies Inside of Government....Pages 334-337 Health Informatics: The Relevance of Open Source and Multilevel Modeling....Pages 338-347 Open Source Software for Model Driven Development: A Case Study....Pages 348-367 The Third Generation of OSS: A Three-Stage Evolution from Gift to Commerce-Economy....Pages 368-378 Standing Situations and Issues of Open Source Policy in East Asian Nations: Outcomes of Open Source Research Workshop of East Asia....Pages 379-384 Towards Sustainable Open Source....Pages 385-385 Improving US Department of Defense Technology Acquisition and Development with Open Source....Pages 386-386 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2010, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 industrial full papers and 8 lightning talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: OSS quality and reliability, OSS products, review of technologies of and for OSS, knowledge and research building in OSS, OSS reuse, integration, and compliance, OSS value and economics, OSS adoption in industry, and mining OSS repositories.