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Worldwide initiatives to advance brain research
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Ingår i: Nature neuroscience. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1546-1726 .- 1097-6256. ; 19:9, s. 1118-1122
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- Poo-Caamaño, Germán, et al.
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Herding cats: A case study of release management in an open collaboration ecosystem
- 2016
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Ingår i: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities, OSS 2016; Gothenburg; Sweden; 30 May 2016 through 2 June 2016. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 1868-4238 .- 1868-422X. - 9783319392240
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Release management in large-scale software development projects requires significant communication and coordination. It is particularly challenging in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystems, in which hundreds of loosely connected developers and their projects need to be coordinated to release software to a schedule. To better understand this process and its challenges, we analyzed over two and half years of communication in the GNOME ecosystem and studied developers’ interactions. We cataloged communication channels, categorized high level communication and coordination activities in one of them, and triangulated our results by interviewing developers. We found that a release schedule, influence instead of direct control, and diversity are factors that impact positively the release process in the GNOME ecosystem. Our results can help organizations build better large-scale teams and show that research focused on individual projects might miss important parts of the picture.
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- Poo-Caamaño, Germán, et al.
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Herding Cats: A Case Study of Release Management in an Open Collaboration Ecosystem
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2016). - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319392240
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Release management in large-scale software development projects requires significant communication and coordination. It is particularly challenging in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystems, in which hundreds of loosely connected developers and their projects need to be coordinated to release software to a schedule. To better understand this process and its challenges, we analyzed over two and half years of communication in the GNOME ecosystem and studied developers' interactions. We cataloged communication channels, categorized communication and coordination activities in one of them, and triangulated our results by interviewing key developers. We find that a release schedule, influence instead of direct control, and diversity are factors that impact positively the release process in the GNOME ecosystem. Our results can help organizations build better large-scale teams and show that research focused on individual projects might miss important parts of the picture.
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- Poo-Caamaño, Germán, et al.
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Herding cats in a FOSS ecosystem: a tale of communication and coordination for release management
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Ingår i: Journal of Internet Services and Applications. - : Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao - SB. - 1867-4828 .- 1869-0238. ; 8:1, s. Article number 12-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Release management in large-scale software development projects requires significant communication and coordination. It is particularly challenging in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystems, in which hundreds of loosely connected developers and their projects are coordinated to release software to a schedule. To better understand this process and its challenges, we analyzed over two and half years of communication in the GNOME ecosystem and studied developers’ interactions. Through a case study, we cataloged communication channels, determined the main channel from which we categorized high level communication and coordination activities spanning five releases, and triangulated our results by interviewing ten key developers. We found that a release schedule, influence (instead of direct control), and diversity are the main factors that positively impact the release process in the GNOME ecosystem. We report a set of lessons learned that encapsulates our understanding of how the Release Management process function in a FOSS ecosystem, we learned that: (1) ensure that the release team follows the main communication channels used by developers, (2) provide a common place for coordination for an ecosystem, (3) consider including both good technical and social skills in a release team, (4) aim for a diverse release team, (5) based on lack of power, lobbying and consensus based management must be followed, (6) help the release team in the coordination process with a well defined schedule, and (7) release team work is different from regular software work. Our results can help organizations build better large-scale teams and show that research focused on individual projects might miss important parts of the picture. © 2017, The Author(s).
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