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Open Source Developer Layer Assessment: Open Onion

Open Source Developer Layer Assessment: Open Onion

Aminat Abiola Showole
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 18
ISSN: 1942-3926|EISSN: 1942-3934|EISBN13: 9781466677333|DOI: 10.4018/IJOSSP.2015010103
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Showole, Aminat Abiola. "Open Source Developer Layer Assessment: Open Onion." IJOSSP vol.6, no.1 2015: pp.31-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2015010103

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Showole, A. A. (2015). Open Source Developer Layer Assessment: Open Onion. International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP), 6(1), 31-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2015010103

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Showole, Aminat Abiola. "Open Source Developer Layer Assessment: Open Onion," International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) 6, no.1: 31-48. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOSSP.2015010103

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Abstract

Open Source developers play fundamental determinant role in the life of any open source project. This paper investigates developer motivation in contributing tirelessly to an open source project. Open source Onions were investigated and the developer layer modeled and validated based on ten case studies from SourceForge. Validation was based on Delphi's four rounds of successive stages. Results show that 62% of the developers around an open source development project community are skilled programmers, and that Open source developers are largely motivated by web based development platforms with universal programming language such as Java and that Developers are mostly attracted to the GPL licensed software development project with high project publicity as could be tracked from the hit rate on the project website. Finally, the few Core developers (Project Administrators) of about 19% actually controls and oversees the affairs carried out by about 81% of many developers showing the prominence of Pareto80/20 Principle in Open Source Project development.

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