Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre/open source software communities

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dc.contributor.authorBarcomb, Ann
dc.contributor.authorStol, Klaas-Jan
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Brian
dc.contributor.authorRiehle, Dirk
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-15T09:11:35Z
dc.date.available2020-04-15T09:11:35Z
dc.date.issued2020-04-06
dc.date.updated2020-04-15T09:04:24Z
dc.description.abstractWe draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We conducted a policy Delphi study involving 24 FLOSS community managers from 22 different communities. Our panel identified 16 concerns related to managing EV in FLOSS, which we ranked by prevalence. We also describe 65 practices for managing EV in FLOSS. Almost three-quarters of these practices are used by at least three community managers. We report these practices using a systematic presentation that includes context, relationships between practices, and concerns that they address. These findings provide a coherent framework that can help FLOSS community managers to better manage episodic contributors.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationBarcomb, A., Stol, K.-J., Fitzgerald, B., Riehle, D. (2020) 'Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2020.2985093.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TSE.2020.2985093en
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.issn0098-5589
dc.identifier.journaltitleIEEE Transactions on Software Engineeringen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9825
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2094/IE/Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG)/15/SIRG/3293/IE/Software Development with Alternative Workforces/en
dc.relation.urihttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9057411
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dc.subjectBest practicesen
dc.subjectCommunity managementen
dc.subjectEpisodic volunteeringen
dc.subjectFree softwareen
dc.subjectOpen source softwareen
dc.subjectSoftwareen
dc.subjectComputer bugsen
dc.subjectOrganizationsen
dc.subjectSystematicsen
dc.subjectLensesen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectObject recognitionen
dc.titleManaging episodic volunteers in free/libre/open source software communitiesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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