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The emerging empirical literature on Open Source communities indicates that a majority of code writing and communication activity is concentrated with a few contributors, the “core” (maintainers). However, these communities allow and encourage participation from anybody, the “periphery”. The focus of this work is on explaining how distributed communities solve software problems through the participation...
There is a little understanding of distributed solving activities in Open Source communities. This study aimed to provide some insights in this way. It was applied to the context of Bugzilla, the bug tracking system of Mozilla community. This study investigated the organizational aspects of this meditated, complex and highly distributed context through a linguistic analysis method. The main finding...
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