Free/Libre Open-Source Software development: What we know and what we do not know

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Wei, Kangning ^b   Howison, James ^c   Wiggins, Andrea ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Development; Distributed work; Free Libre open source software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED WORK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FREE/LIBRE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; SMALL GROUPS; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; TEAM PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY USE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79955134463     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2089125.2089127     Document Type: Review

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