How many eyeballs does a bug need? An empirical validation of Linus' Law

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: DATTA, Subhajit, SARKAR, Proshanta, DAS, Sutirtha, SRESHTHA, Sonu, LADE, Prasanth, MAJUMDER, Subhashis
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• الموضوعات: Android; Betweenness; Connection; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Linus' Law; Regression; Social Network Analysis; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Software Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5580; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6583/viewcontent/HowManyEyeballsDoesABugNeed_2014_av.pdf

Linus’ Law reflects on a key characteristic of open source software development: developers’ tendency to closely work together in the bug resolution process. In this paper we empirically examine Linus’ Law using a data-set of 1,000+ Android bugs, owned by 70+ developers. Our results indicate that en...