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Demography of linux kernel developers,” (2006)

by T Aaltonen, J Jokinen
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Influence in the linux kernel community

by Timo Aaltonen , Jyke Jokinen - Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation. IFIP , 2007
"... Abstract. Several success stories of open source (OS) products have been seen during last decade. Due to the economical importance of the products, it is important to know who are the ones who have the largest influence to the products. Is there a dominant player in developing communities? In this ..."
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Abstract. Several success stories of open source (OS) products have been seen during last decade. Due to the economical importance of the products, it is important to know who are the ones who have the largest influence to the products. Is there a dominant player in developing communities? In this paper 1 the aspect is studied with respect to the Linux Kernel community. We show that the influence is centered to a small number of core people, and corporates have a large impact to the development. Moreover, we enumerate the most influential companies.
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...the products evolve in future. This is essential when choosing between different open source and proprietary alternatives. This paper studies the influence of the developers and leaders of the Linux Kernel. The Kernel was chosen because it is the only operating system challenging Microsoft Windows, the available amount of data is large, and the number of people working for the project is numerous. The study of influence is based on counting the signers of Developer’s Certificate of Origin [5] (DCO) for patches. In short, signing a DCO has two main meanings 1 This paper is a revised version of [1] Timo Aaltonen and Jyke Jokinen204 1. the original author of a patch certifies that she has the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; and 2. later code maintainers and Linux lieutenants indicate that they accept the patch by adding their own signature. It is obvious that the signers are influential persons in the Linux Kernel community. The more person signs patches the more influence she has. We applied a set of measures to the mined data. The most important findings are 1. A large portion of the influence is contributed by a relatively small amount of people...

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