Entering an ecosystem: The hybrid OSS landscape from a developer perspective

  • Hanna Mäenpää
  • , Fabian Fagerholm
  • , Myriam Munezero
  • , Terhi Kilamo
  • , Tommi Mikkonen

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    Abstract

    Hybrid Open Source Software projects are virtual organizations that express characteristics of both static and dynamic behavior. They are choreographed through complex organizational structures that mix centralized governance with distributed community drivenness. While many communities use standard software tools to support their development processes, each community has its own ways of working and invisible power structures that influence how contributions are submitted, how they are verified and how decisions about the long-term direction of the software product are made. Navigating this environment is especially challenging for new developers who need to prove their abilities to gain rights to make contributions. This paper provides a viewpoint on the factors that influence a new developer's perception of the hybrid OSS developer community landscape. We apply an established developmental theory to build an initial model for the developer's context and discuss the model's validation, providing its practical and theoretical implications for building and managing on-line developer communities.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 9th International Workshop on Software Ecosystems
    PublisherCEUR-WS
    Pages127-137
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Nov 2017
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    EventInternational Workshop on Software Ecosystems -
    Duration: 1 Jan 1900 → …

    Publication series

    NameCEUR workshop proceedings
    Volume2053
    ISSN (Electronic)1613-0073

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Workshop on Software Ecosystems
    Period1/01/00 → …

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 1

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