What make long term contributors: Willingness and opportunity in OSS community

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 518-528

  Zhou, Minghui ^a   Mockus, Audris ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

interaction of person and environment; Long Term Contributor; open source; opportunity; willingness

Indexed keywords

INTERACTION OF PERSON AND ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM CONTRIBUTOR; OPEN SOURCES; OPPORTUNITY; WILLINGNESS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864220485     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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