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Abstract
Open source software (OSS) has attracted extensive attention from researchers and scholars. This increasing attention is a result of the remarkable growth in the number of OSS applications in recent years. Despite an increased number of studies on OSS project success, the interrelationships among different success indicators of OSS projects are not well understood in literature. The present study reports on the interrelationships between the success measures of OSS projects, as defined by the ability of the project to attract user and developer interest, release management, project activity, and development sustainability. To test the relationships hypothesized, we gathered data from 1409 OSS projects over time (in two snapshots over a period of eight months). The results show the following: (a) project activity until any time period positively impacts the subsequent period’s developer interest and development sustainability; (b) development sustainability positively drives user and developer interest; (c) release frequency positively influences the next period’s developer interest, as well as development sustainability; (d) developer interest positively drives user interest. These findings have implications for both the OSS research community and OSS practitioners.
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Amir Hossein Ghapanchi
Amir Hossein Ghapanchi is a tenured faculty member at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Australia. He previously worked at the University of Technology in Sydney and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He obtained his PhD in Information Systems from UNSW. Dr. Ghapanchi has also been an active member of the Institute for Integrated Intelligent Systems and the Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre. He has collaborated in the Assistive eHealth Technologies for Aged Care research initiative and in an ongoing randomized controlled trial of robots for aged care in 53 sites in six countries as part of Victoryahome, the €2.36 Million EU project led by the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine. Dr. Ghapanchi is a section editor for the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, and an associate editor for the International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems and the International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences. He has published 40 articles in journals such as Information and Organization, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Electronic Markets, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, International Journal of Project Management, and International Journal of Information Management.