TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing open source project health
AU - Link, Georg J.P.
AU - Germonprez, Matt
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Digital Technology grant on Open Source Health and Sustainability, 2016-2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Information Systems. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Assessing the health of open source projects is common amongst people who engage in open source projects. This phenomenological study is the beginning of a research program that investigates open source project health. We find a lack of shared understanding of how people assess open source project health. This paper identifies four themes, namely (1) that assessing open source project health is required, (2) that it is built on the activity within a project, (3) that the process of assessing health is not clear nor well understood, and (4) that a deeper understanding of health comes from understanding aspects of community, code, and resources. This paper contributes to open source project health by documenting the universal need for assessing health, uncovering the importance of project activity, identifying the potential benefit of creating a shared understanding and process of assessing health, and confirming theoretical conceptualizations of project health.
AB - Assessing the health of open source projects is common amongst people who engage in open source projects. This phenomenological study is the beginning of a research program that investigates open source project health. We find a lack of shared understanding of how people assess open source project health. This paper identifies four themes, namely (1) that assessing open source project health is required, (2) that it is built on the activity within a project, (3) that the process of assessing health is not clear nor well understood, and (4) that a deeper understanding of health comes from understanding aspects of community, code, and resources. This paper contributes to open source project health by documenting the universal need for assessing health, uncovering the importance of project activity, identifying the potential benefit of creating a shared understanding and process of assessing health, and confirming theoretical conceptualizations of project health.
KW - Engaged field research
KW - Open source project health
KW - Open source software
KW - Phenomenology
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054200350
SN - 9780996683166
T3 - Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018
BT - Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018
PB - Association for Information Systems
T2 - 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018
Y2 - 16 August 2018 through 18 August 2018
ER -