%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Voting for bugs in Firefox: a voice for Mom and Dad?
%+ Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (LPMA)
%+ Centre de recherche en gestion (CRG)
%A Dalle, Jean-Michel
%A Den-Besten, Matthijs
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 6th International IFIP WG 2.13 Conference on Open Source Systems,(OSS)
%C Notre Dame, United States
%Y Pär Ågerfalk; Cornelia Boldyreff; Jesús M. González-Barahona; Gregory R. Madey; John Noll
%I Springer
%3 Open Source Software: New Horizons
%V AICT-319
%P 73-84
%8 2010-05-30
%D 2010
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_6
%K open-source communities
%K Firefox
%K bug-tracking system (Bugzilla)
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administrationConference papers
%X In this paper, we present preliminary evidence suggesting that the voting mechanism implemented by the open-source Firefox community is a means to provide a supplementary voice to mainstream users. This evidence is drawn from a sample of bug-reports and from information on voters both found within the bug-tracking system (Bugzilla) for Firefox. Although voting is known to be a relatively common feature within the governance structure of many open-source communities, our paper suggests that it also plays a role as a bridge between the mainstream users in the periphery of the community and developers at the core: voters who do not participate in other activities within the community, the more peripheral, tend to vote for the more user-oriented Firefox module; moreover, bugs declared and first patched by members of the periphery and bug rather solved in “I” mode tend to receive more votes; meanwhile, more votes are associated with an increased involvement of core members of the community in the provision of patches, quite possibly as a consequence of the increased efforts and attention that the highly voted bugs attract from the core.
%G English
%Z TC 2
%Z WG 2.13
%2 https://hal.science/hal-00549769/document
%2 https://hal.science/hal-00549769/file/10.1007_978-3-642-13244-5_6.pdf
%L hal-00549769
%U https://hal.science/hal-00549769
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