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Enabling the definition and enforcement of governance rules in open source systems

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Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo,

Jordi CabotAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

Pages 505 - 514

Published: 16 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Governance rules in software development projects help to prioritize and manage their development tasks, and contribute to the long-term sustainability of the project by clarifying how core and external contributors should collaborate in order to advance the project during its whole lifespan. Despite their importance, specially in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, these rules are usually implicit or scattered in the project documentation/tools (e.g., tracking-systems or forums), hampering the correct understanding of the development process. We propose to enable the explicit definition and enforcement of governance rules for OSS projects. We believe this brings several important benefits, including improvements in the transparency of the process, its traceability and the semi-automation of the governance itself. Our approach has been implemented on top of Mylyn, a project-management Eclipse plug-in supporting most popular tracking-systems.

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Gasparini MIzquierdo JClarisó RBrambilla MCabot JLundell BGamalielsson JMorgan LRobles G(2019)Analyzing rich-club behavior in open source projectsProceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration10.1145/3306446.3340825(1-9)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3306446.3340825
Izquierdo JCabot JIssarny VDustdar S(2018)The role of foundations in open source projectsProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society10.1145/3183428.3183438(3-12)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183428.3183438
Bogart CKästner CHerbsleb JThung FZimmermann TCleland-Huang JSu Z(2016)How to break an API: cost negotiation and community values in three software ecosystemsProceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2950290.2950325(109-120)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2950290.2950325

Index Terms

Enabling the definition and enforcement of governance rules in open source systems
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
    2. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

May 2015

1058 pages

General Chair:
Antonia Bertolino
ISTI-CNR, Italy
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Gasparini MIzquierdo JClarisó RBrambilla MCabot JLundell BGamalielsson JMorgan LRobles G(2019)Analyzing rich-club behavior in open source projectsProceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration10.1145/3306446.3340825(1-9)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3306446.3340825
Izquierdo JCabot JIssarny VDustdar S(2018)The role of foundations in open source projectsProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society10.1145/3183428.3183438(3-12)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183428.3183438
Bogart CKästner CHerbsleb JThung FZimmermann TCleland-Huang JSu Z(2016)How to break an API: cost negotiation and community values in three software ecosystemsProceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2950290.2950325(109-120)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2950290.2950325

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