Understanding How Companies Interact with Free Software Communities
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Daniel Izquierdo, Stefano Maffulli, Gregório Robles · IEEE Software · 2013
When free, open source software development communities work with companies that use their output, it's especially important for both parties to understand how this collaboration is performing. The use of data analytics techniques on software development repositories can improve factual knowledge about performance metrics.