Weiss, Dawid (2005) Measuring success of open source projects using web search engines. In: The First International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2005), Genova, Italy.
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Abstract
What makes an open source project successful?
In this paper we show that the traditional factors of success of open source projects, such as number of downloads, deployments or commits are sometimes inconvenient or even insufficient. We then correlate success of an open source project with its popularity on the Web. We show several ideas of how such popularity could be measured using Web search engines and provide experimental results from quantitative analysis of the proposed measures on representative large samples of open source projects from SourceForge.
| Additional Information: | What makes an open source project successful? In this paper we show that the traditional factors of success of open source projects, such as number of downloads, deployments or commits are sometimes inconvenient or even insufficient. We then correlate success of an open source project with its popularity on the Web. We show several ideas of how such popularity could be measured using Web search engines and provide experimental results from quantitative analysis of the proposed measures on representative large samples of open source projects from SourceForge. |
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| Keywords: | Open source software, Search engines, Internet |
| Subjects: | G Mathematical and Computer Sciences > G610 Software Design G Mathematical and Computer Sciences > G600 Software Engineering |
| Divisions: | College of Science > School of Computer Science |
| ID Code: | 76 |
| Deposited On: | 24 Oct 2005 |
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