Software population pyramids: the current and the future of OSS development communities

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Pub Date : 2014-09-18 DOI:10.1145/2652524.2652565

Saya Onoue, Hideaki Hata, Kenji Matsumoto

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Context: Since human power is an essential resource, the number of contributors in a software development community is one of the health indicators of an open source software (OSS) project. For maintaining and increasing the populations in software development communities, both attracting new contributors and retaining existing contributors are important. Goal: Our goal is understanding the current status of projects' population, especially the different experienced contributors' composition of the projects. Method: We propose software population pyramids, a graphical illustration of the distribution of various experience groups in a software development community. Results: From the study with OSS projects in GitHub, we found that the shapes of software population pyramids varies depending on the current status of OSS development communities. Conclusions: This paper present a software population pyramid of the distribution of various experience groups in a software community population. Our results can be considered as predictors of the near future of a project.

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软件人口金字塔:OSS开发社区的当前和未来

上下文:由于人力是一种必要的资源，软件开发社区中贡献者的数量是开放源码软件(OSS)项目的健康指标之一。为了维护和增加软件开发社区的人口，吸引新的贡献者和保留现有的贡献者都很重要。目标:我们的目标是了解项目人口的当前状态，特别是不同经验丰富的贡献者组成的项目。方法:我们提出了软件人口金字塔，这是软件开发社区中各种经验群体分布的图形说明。结果:通过对GitHub中的OSS项目的研究，我们发现软件人口金字塔的形状随OSS开发社区的现状而变化。结论:本文提出了一个软件社区人口中各种经验群体分布的软件人口金字塔。我们的结果可以被认为是一个项目近期的预测指标。

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