How do free/open source developers pick their tools?: A Delphi study of the Debian project

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dc.contributor.authorKrafft, Martin F.
dc.contributor.authorStol, Klaas-Jan
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Brian
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderEnterprise irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-24T10:59:34Z
dc.date.available2018-10-24T10:59:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.date.updated2018-10-03T20:51:24Z
dc.description.abstractFree and Open Source Software (FOSS) has come to play a critical role in the global software industry. Organizations are widely adopting FOSS and interacting with open source communities, and hence organizations have a considerable interest in seeing these communities flourishing. Little research has focused on the tools used to develop that software. Given the absence of formal mandate that would appear in traditional organizations, an open question is what influences a FOSS contributor's decision to adopt a tool and how workflows get established in FOSS teams. In this paper we report on a Delphi study conducted in the Debian Project, one of the largest FOSS projects. Drawing from data collected in three phases from a panel of 21 carefully selected and well-informed participants, we identified 15 factors that affect decisions to adopt tools and relate those to existing models of innovation and diffusion.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council (New Foundations 2014); Enterprise Ireland (IR/2013/0021 to SCALARE)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationKrafft, M. F., Stol, K.-J. and Fitzgerald, B. (2016) 'How do free/open source developers pick their tools?: a Delphi study of the Debian project', ICSE '16: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, Austin, Texas, 14-22 May, 2889248: ACM, pp. 232-241. doi: 10.1145/2889160.2889248en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/2889160.2889248
dc.identifier.endpage241en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-4205-6
dc.identifier.startpage232en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7040
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)en
dc.relation.ispartof38th International Conference on Software Engineering
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2094/IE/Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre/en
dc.relation.urihttps://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2889248
dc.rights© ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ICSE '16 Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion , pp. 232-241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2889160.2889248en
dc.subjectFree/open source softwareen
dc.subjectToolsen
dc.subjectDelphi studyen
dc.subjectQualitative studyen
dc.subjectSoftware engineeringen
dc.subjectSoftware maintenance toolsen
dc.subjectCollaboration in software developmenten
dc.titleHow do free/open source developers pick their tools?: A Delphi study of the Debian projecten
dc.typeConference itemen
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