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Published on: June 6, 2025
Free and Open Source Software organizations: A large-scale analysis of code, comments, and commits frequency
Tadeusz Chełkowski1, Dariusz Jemielniak1, Kacper Macikowski1
1MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies), Department at Kozminski University, Warszawa, Poland.
Abstract:
As Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) increases in importance and use by global corporations, understanding the dynamics of its communities becomes critical. This paper measures up to 21 years of activities in 1314 individual projects and 1.4 billion lines of code managed. After analyzing the FOSS activities on the projects and organizations level, such as commits frequency, source code lines, and code comments, we find that there is less activity now than there was a decade ago. Moreover, our results suggest a greater decrease in the activities in large and well-established FOSS organizations. Our findings indicate that as technologies and business strategies related to FOSS mature, the role of large formal FOSS organizations serving as intermediary between developers diminishes.
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