%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Is It All Lost? A Study of Inactive Open Source Projects
%+ Brunel University London [Uxbridge]
%+ University of Limerick (UL)
%A Khondhu, Jymit
%A Capiluppi, Andrea
%A Stol, Klaas-Jan
%Z Part 1: Full Papers - Innovation and Sustainability
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 9th Open Source Software (OSS)
%C Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia
%Y Etiel Petrinja
%Y Giancarlo Succi
%Y Nabil Ioini
%Y Alberto Sillitti
%I Springer
%3 Open Source Software: Quality Verification
%V AICT-404
%P 61-79
%8 2013-06-25
%D 2013
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_5
%K Open Source
%K Inactive Projects
%K Maintainability Index
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X Open Source Software (OSS) proponents suggest that when developers lose interest in their project, their last duty is to “hand it off to a competent successor.” However, the mechanisms of such a hand-off are not clear, or widely known among OSS developers. As a result, many OSS projects, after a certain long period of evolution, stop evolving, in fact becoming “inactive” or “abandoned” projects. This paper presents an analysis of the population of projects contained within one of the largest OSS repositories available (SourceForge.net), in order to describe how projects abandoned by their developers can be identified, and to discuss the attributes and characteristics of these inactive projects. In particular, the paper attempts to differentiate projects that experienced maintainability issues from those that are inactive for other reasons, in order to be able to correlate common characteristics to the “failure” of these projects.
%G English
%Z TC 2
%Z WG 2.13
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01467582/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01467582/file/978-3-642-38928-3_5_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01467582
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01467582
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