TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Li, Qing
AU - Wei, Kangning
AU - Eseryel, U. Yeliz
AU - Howison, James
N1 - Funding Information:
Based on observations obtained at the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the NSF on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the National Science Foundation (United States), the National Research Council (Canada), CON-ICYT (Chile), the Australian Research Council (Australia), Min-istério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovac¸ão (Brazil) and Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Argentina).
Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous referee for their valuable comments on the manuscript. MW acknowledges the generous travel support from Academia Sinica to attend the conference Star Formation Through Spectroimaging at High Angular Resolution in July 2011, which provided useful information for this study. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council through Discovery Project Grant DP120101792 (R. Salmeron).
Funding Information:
Based on observations obtained at the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the NSF on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the National Science Foundation (United States), the National Research Council (Canada), CONICYT (Chile), the Australian Research Council (Australia), Minist?rio da Ci?ncia, Tecnologia e Inova??o (Brazil) and Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnolog?a e Innovaci?n Productiva (Argentina). We are extremely grateful for the support of the NIFS teams at the Australian National University, Auspace, and Gemini Observatory for their tireless efforts during the instrument integration, commissioning and system verification: Jan Van Harmleen, Peter Young, Mark Jarnyk (deceased), Nick Porecki, Richard Gronke, Robert Boss, Brian Walls, Gelys Trancho, Inseok Song, Chris Carter, Peter Groskowski, Tatiana Paz, John White, and James Patao. Thanks must also go to Tracy Beck for her support during the commissioning and observations. We thank the anonymous referee for their valuable comments on the manuscript. MW acknowledges the generous travel support from Academia Sinica to attend the conference Star Formation Through Spectroimaging at High Angular Resolution in July 2011, which provided useful information for this study. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council through Discovery Project Grant DP120101792 (R. Salmeron).
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - This paper provides empirical evidence about how free/libre open source software development teams self-organize their work, specifically, how tasks are assigned to project team members. Following a case study methodology, we examined developer interaction data from three active and successful FLOSS projects using qualitative research methods, specifically inductive content analysis, to identify the task-assignment mechanisms used by the participants. We found that 'self-assignment' was the most common mechanism across three FLOSS projects. This mechanism is consistent with expectations for distributed and largely volunteer teams. We conclude by discussing whether these emergent practices can be usefully transferred to mainstream practice and indicating directions for future research.
AB - This paper provides empirical evidence about how free/libre open source software development teams self-organize their work, specifically, how tasks are assigned to project team members. Following a case study methodology, we examined developer interaction data from three active and successful FLOSS projects using qualitative research methods, specifically inductive content analysis, to identify the task-assignment mechanisms used by the participants. We found that 'self-assignment' was the most common mechanism across three FLOSS projects. This mechanism is consistent with expectations for distributed and largely volunteer teams. We conclude by discussing whether these emergent practices can be usefully transferred to mainstream practice and indicating directions for future research.
KW - Coordination
KW - Distributed teams
KW - Free/libre open source software development
KW - Qualitative research methods
KW - Self-organizing teams
KW - Task assignment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004
DO - 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247102334
SN - 0950-5849
VL - 49
SP - 564
EP - 575
JO - Information and Software Technology
JF - Information and Software Technology
IS - 6
ER -