Download Patterns and Releases in Open Source Software Projects: a Perfect Symbiosis? - Open Source Software: New Horizons
Conference Papers Year : 2010

Download Patterns and Releases in Open Source Software Projects: a Perfect Symbiosis?

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Software usage by end-users is one of the factors used to evaluate the success of software projects. In the context of open source software, there is no single and non-controversial measure of usage, though. Still, one of the most used and readily available measure is data about projects downloads. Nevertheless, download counts and averages do not convey as much information as the patterns in the original downloads time series. In this research, we propose a method to increase the expressiveness of mere download rates by considering download patterns against software releases. We apply experimentally our method to the most downloaded projects of SourceForge's history crawled through the FLOSSMole repository. Findings show that projects with similar usage can have indeed different levels of sensitivity to releases, revealing different behaviors of users. Future research will develop further the pattern recognition approach to automatically
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hal-01058774 , version 1 (28-08-2014)

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Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Giancarlo Succi. Download Patterns and Releases in Open Source Software Projects: a Perfect Symbiosis?. 6th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems,(OSS), May 2010, Notre Dame, United States. pp.252-267, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_20⟩. ⟨hal-01058774⟩
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