An Investigation of Work Practices Used by Companies Making Contributions to Established OSS Projects

2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP) Pub Date : 2017-05-01 DOI:10.1145/3183519.3183531

Simon Butler, Jonas Gamalielsson, B. Lundell, Per Jonsson, J. Sjöberg, A. Mattsson, Niklas Rickö, Tomas Gustavsson, Jonas Feist, Stefan Landemoo, Erik Lönroth

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Professionals contribute to open source software (OSS) projects as part of their employment. Previous research has addressed motivations of individuals and the ways they engage with OSS projects. However, there is a lack of research which examines and explains work practices used by companies in their engagement with projects. Work practices used by companies to contribute to five established OSS projects are investigated through examination of the actions of employees in public communication channels and draw on our experiences when analysing engagement with the same projects. We find that companies utilise work practices for contributing which are congruent with the circumstances and their capabilities that support their short and long term needs. We find that companies contribute to OSS projects in different ways, such as employing core project developers, making donations, and joining project steering committees in order to advance strategic interests.

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对为已建立的开源软件项目做出贡献的公司所使用的工作实践的调查

专业人员为开源软件(OSS)项目做出贡献是他们工作的一部分。以前的研究已经讨论了个人的动机和他们参与OSS项目的方式。然而，缺乏研究来检验和解释公司在参与项目时使用的工作实践。通过检查员工在公共沟通渠道中的行为，并在分析与相同项目的接触时借鉴我们的经验，对公司为五个已建立的OSS项目做出贡献的工作实践进行了调查。我们发现，公司利用与环境和他们的能力相一致的工作实践来支持他们的短期和长期需求。我们发现公司以不同的方式对OSS项目做出贡献，例如雇用核心项目开发人员，进行捐赠，以及为了推进战略利益而加入项目指导委员会。

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