Trust issues in open source software development
Heikki Orsila, Jaco Geldenhuys, Anna Ruokonen, Imed Hammouda · 2009
Open source software and the associated development model holds great promise, but the issue of trust is a major challenge. This applies to companies wishing to adopt the open source model but also within open source projects. We investigate this issue by data mining open source repositories to study two related phenomena: update propagation and distributed version control.