The Influence of the Cooperation of Developers on OSS Project Success from the Perspective of Complex Network
Peng Liu, Jiawei Zheng, Nianxin Wang · Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research · 2021
The success of OSS projects is closely related to the collaborative network formed by the spontaneous interaction of members within the community.Although some studies have discussed about that, they only focus on the complex network characteristics presented by the developer collaboration network, so the research in this area still needs to be further deepened.In this research, we construct the developer collaboration network by collecting 418 projects data from GitHub community.After considering the influence of the characteristics of the project itself.Our results suggest that the clear degree of technical division of labor among developers, The strength of collaboration between each other and The proportion of developers involved in the collaboration are positively correlated with the project's success.while the degree of differences in the status about division of members negatively correlated with the success of the project.This discovery helps us to better improve the probability of the success of open source projects.