Open Source Software Sustainability: Combining Institutional Analysis and Socio-Technical Networks
Open Source Software Sustainability: Combining Institutional Analysis and Socio-Technical Networks
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开源软件可持续性：结合制度分析和社会技术网络
DOI：
10.1145/3555129
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Filkov, Vladimir
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作者：
Yin, Likang;Chakraborti, Mahasweta;Yan, Yibo;Schweik, Charles;Frey, Seth;Filkov, Vladimir
可持续的开源软件（OSS）构成了我们数字社会的大部分结构，特别是成功和可持续的软件。但许多OSS项目并不可持续，导致放弃，甚至给世界数字基础设施带来风险。先前的工作主要从两个非常不同的角度来研究其原因。在软件工程中，重点是从社会技术的角度理解成功和可持续性：OSS程序员的日常活动和他们创建的工件。另一方面，在制度分析中，重点是制度设计（例如，政策、规则和规范）。尽管每一个都是必要的全面了解OSS项目，这两种方法之间的连接和相互作用几乎没有explored.In本文中，我们第一次努力了解OSS项目的可持续性使用双视图分析，通过结合机构分析与社会技术系统分析。特别是，我们（i）使用语言学方法从OSS贡献者的通信中提取制度规则和规范，以代表其治理系统的演变，以及（ii）基于纵向合作记录构建社会技术网络，以代表每个项目的组织结构。我们将这两种方法结合起来，并将其应用于Apache软件基金会（ASF）孵化器内253个新生OSS项目的开发人员数字跟踪数据集。我们发现，社会技术和机构的特点相互关联，并提供免费的意见到ASF的开放源码软件项目的进展。完善这些综合分析有助于更准确地理解机构治理和组织结构演变之间的同步性。
Sustainable Open Source Software (OSS) forms much of the fabric of our digital society, especially successful and sustainable ones. But many OSS projects do not become sustainable, resulting in abandonment and even risks for the world's digital infrastructure. Prior work has looked at the reasons for this mainly from two very different perspectives. In software engineering, the focus has been on understanding success and sustainability from the socio-technical perspective: the OSS programmers' day-to-day activities and the artifacts they create. In institutional analysis, on the other hand, emphasis has been on institutional designs (e.g., policies, rules, and norms) that structure project governance. Even though each is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of OSS projects, the connection and interaction between the two approaches have been barely explored.In this paper, we make the first effort toward understanding OSS project sustainability using a dual-view analysis, by combining institutional analysis with socio-technical systems analysis. In particular, we (i) use linguistic approaches to extract institutional rules and norms from OSS contributors' communications to represent the evolution of their governance systems, and (ii) construct socio-technical networks based on longitudinal collaboration records to represent each project's organizational structure. We combined the two methods and applied them to a dataset of developer digital traces from 253 nascent OSS projects within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) incubator. We find that the socio-technical and institutional features relate to each other, and provide complimentary views into the progress of the ASF's OSS projects. Refining these combined analyses can help provide a more precise understanding of the synchronization between the evolution of institutional governance and organizational structure.
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