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Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communications

Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communications. Review Report By Haroon Malik. ABSTRACT. Open Source software (OOS) development a “natural product evolution” approach. Case Study of four typical OSS projects

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Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communications

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  1. Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communications Review Report By Haroon Malik

  2. ABSTRACT • Open Source software (OOS) development a “natural product evolution” approach. • Case Study of four typical OSS projects • Border Prospective: Evolution of OOS systems and its associated communities. • Proposed three types of OSS classification • Exploration-oriented, • Utility-Oriented & • Service-Oriented.

  3. Open Source software • Free Redistribution • Source Code • Derived Works Integrity of The Author’s Source Code • No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups • No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor • License Must Not Be Specific to a Product http://www.opensource.org

  4. New Dimension • Previous studies: • The growth of size. • Decay of architecture and design & • Change of defect density. • Current Approach: • Evolution of OSS along with its respective community.

  5. Natural Product Evolution Source: [Madey, Freeh, and Tynan 2002].

  6. APPROACH • Started in January 2001 by SRA to Conducted a survey on current status of OSS • Four local project were studied • GNUwingut Project • Linux Support project. • SRA-PostgresSQL project • Jun project

  7. The GNUWingut Project • GNU project: Develops free UNIX operating System • GNUWingut project: Helps client import GNU software programs on to particular hardware platform • Richard Stallman: “Scientific knowledge to be shared among mankind”.

  8. The GNUWingut Project (Cont’d) • Centralized Control • Develop Patches • Helps client to refine patch and report them to GNU core team development • Strict adhere to GNU guidelines • Acts as intermediate in couture barrier.

  9. The Linux Support Project • Supports Linux bazaar style with decentralized control. • Identify and solve problem in course of using Linux. • Apply fix to existing source code • Do not contribute to the community

  10. The SRA-PostgreSQL Project • Originally Developed as Research Prototype. • Internationalization • Bug fixes and patches

  11. The JUN Project • Distribution of Jun Library • Deals with the software that has been developed in house • Contribution is from small group • Strictly managed by single project leader

  12. Psychiatry • General framework is required to manipulate the nature of evaluation in OSS project. • The frame work should address roles of OSS community members • The frame work should be able to depict the OSS community structure.

  13. Roles of Community Members

  14. Community Structure • No direct association of community member roles with social attributes • Balanced composition of roles • Unique community structure is determined by the nature and the its member population

  15. Four OSS (Roles and structure of communities) • GNU Systems • Project Leader • Helped by Core members. • Makes Most decisions. • Active Developer • Trusted by project leader. • Contribute own code, Improve peripheral developers code and are bug fixer.

  16. Four OSS (Roles and structure of communities) (Cont’d) • Recommend code to Project leader • Large numbers Readers exists in GNU community • They also acts as passive users. • Linux • One project leader (Linus Torvalds) • Few core members responsible for development of subsystem

  17. Four OSS (Roles and structure of communities) (Cont’d) • Many Active developers. • Huge volume of passive user. • PostgreSQL • No single project leader. • Six core members. • 30 Active developers (major development team). • Inclusion of new features require voting by core members.

  18. Four OSS (Roles and structure of communities) (Cont’d) • Community members are mostly passive users and Bug Reporter. • Few Readers and extremely low volume of Bug Fixer. • Leader of SRA PostgreSQL project is Active Developer. • Other SRA members work as Peripheral Developers.

  19. Four OSS (Roles and structure of communities) (Cont’d) • JUN • Project leader: SRA employee • Many other employee work as Core Members. • Few Bug Reporters exists in community • Most members are passive user with exception of few as readers

  20. Evolution of Systems

  21. Evolution of Communities • Evolution of an OSS community is brought by the role changes of its members. • Evolution of OSS community is determined by two factors: • Existence of motivated members & • Social Mechanism of the community

  22. Classification of OSS Projects • Exploration-oriented OSS • GNU and JUN falls in to this category. • Quality requirement of this class is very high • Once, released becomes learning source for thousands. • Must be developed and maintained by expert programmers such as project leaders. • Community members mostly collaborate with leader as reviews and testers

  23. Classification of OSS Projects (Cont’d) • Utility-Oriented OSS • Linux falls in to this classification (excluding Linux kernel). • Consists of many relative independent programs. • Mostly developed from scratch. • Mostly targeted to solve individual or small group needs. • Evolution pattern is tournament style.

  24. Classification of OSS Projects (Cont’d) • Service-Oriented OSS • PostgreSQL marks this class. • Population of stakeholders is much larger then that of Community. • Conservative against evolutionary and rapid changes. • Changes are made in council style.

  25. Classification of OSS Projects (Cont’d)

  26. Evolution Pattern of OSS projects

  27. Thank You.

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