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Open Source Studies

Posted by michael on from the hitting-the-books dept.

e8johan writes "Avaya Labs Research has presented a paper studying the open source process in the cases of Apache and Mozilla. They reach a number of interesting conclusions, the ones I find most interesting are: * Open source projects tend to have a core team of 10-15 coders, producing almost all code. The next layer is a set of developers submitting new features and bugfixes. The next layer is a set of advanced users submitting bug reports. * Open source projects tend to have a lower bug-rate than commercial projects. * Open source projects are generally quicker to respond to user requests. The article also discusses the differences between projects that have always been open source (such as Apache) and projects having a proprietary history (such as Mozilla)."

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  1. I'm an advanced user... by ajuda · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and here is my bug sumission. It's spelled COMMERCIAL, not commersial I guess this submission was proprietary.

  2. Primary Difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Open Source projects tend to have less men with whips walking around your cubical.

    "We are slaves."

    1. Re:Primary Difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      what about women with whips?
      actually, that might slow down development even more... mmm, women with whips..

  3. Structure... by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Leader

    One inner circle of designers

    10-15 core group of coders

    Dozens of bugfixers, feature submitters

    Thousands (and then some) of users

    Several Slashdot articles

    Hundreds of Insightful, Informative, Interesting posts

    A preponderance of troll, offtopic or subjectively funny posts

    Priceless

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  4. Re:It's all about the QA! by jazman_777 · · Score: 2, Funny
    to be fair, some QA departments do view that as their job - preventing anything from being released

    And to be fair, with some products, that's a good thing.

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