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

Butler, Simon (author): Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Software Systems Research Group (SSRG)

Gamalielsson, Jonas (author): Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Software Systems Research Group (SSRG)

Lundell, Björn (author): Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Software Systems Research Group (SSRG)

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2018-05-27
2018
English.
In: ICSE-SEIP '18 Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice. - New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450356596 ; , s. 201-210

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Abstract Subject headings

Professionals contribute to open source software (OSS) projects aspart of their employment. Previous research has addressed motivationsof individuals and the ways they engage with OSS projects.However, there is a lack of research which examines and explainswork practices used by companies in their engagement with projects.Work practices used by companies to contribute to five establishedOSS projects are investigated through examination of the actions ofemployees in public communication channels and draw on our experienceswhen analysing engagement with the same projects. Wefind that companies utilise work practices for contributing whichare congruent with the circumstances and their capabilities thatsupport their short and long term needs. We find that companiescontribute to OSS projects in different ways, such as employing coreproject developers, making donations, and joining project steeringcommittees in order to advance strategic interests.

By the author/editor: Butler, Simon; Gamalielsson, Jo ...; Lundell, Björn; Jonsson, Per; Sjöberg, Johan; Mattsson, Anders; show more...; Rickö, Niklas; Gustavsson, Toma ...; Feist, Jonas; Landemoo, Stefan; Lönroth, Erik; show less...

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NATURAL SCIENCES: NATURAL SCIENCES; and Computer and Inf ...; and Software Enginee ...

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