Developer Role Evolution in Open Source Software Ecosystem: An Explanatory Study on GNOME
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The imprint of founders and the need for permanent recruitment of participants for project survival have been noted.
“También se ha constatado la impronta de los fundadores y la necesidad de un reclutamiento permanente de participantes para la supervivencia del proyecto (Zanotti, 2014;Cheng et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Cheng, C., Li, B., Li, Z.-Y., Zhao, Y.-Q., & Liao, F.-L.
- Affiliations
- Wuhan University (CN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 396-414
- ISSN
- 1000-9000 (ISSN-L)
- 1860-4749
- OpenAlex
- W2593147042
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 2.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- open source ecosystem, core developers, project leaders, developer retention, developer recruitment, project environment, gnomes
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