Print Email Facebook Twitter Hierarchy in Meritocracy: Community Building and Code Production in The Apache Software Foundation Title Hierarchy in Meritocracy: Community Building and Code Production in The Apache Software Foundation Author Castaneda, O.F. Contributor Van Eeten, M.J.G. (mentor) Scholten, V.E. (mentor) Van Wendel de Joode, R. (mentor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Policy, Organization, Law and Gaming Programme Management of Technology Date 2010-12-13 Abstract This research is about code production in top-level open source communities of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). We extensively analyzed Subversion repository logs from 70 top-level Apache open source projects in the ASF from 2004 to 2009. Based on interactions in code production during one-year periods we constructed networks of file co-authorship that gave us access to the organization of Apache open source communities. This allowed us to measure graph level properties, like hier- archy and clustering, and their influence on the outputs of code production. Apache communities are groups of individuals that organize their code production efforts in order to develop enterprise-grade open source software. The ASF explains the success of its communities and the software they produce by claiming to have instituted a meritocracy that brings contributors together in a way that significantly influences code production, namely by building communities instead of only focusing on technical properties of the source code like modularity. Self-organization theory has found that the role of institutions is minor. In this research we test and confirm the theory of self-organization, and find that the meritocracy institution does not influence code production. Subject open sourceself-organizationinstitutionalizationmanagement of innovationmanagement of technologysoftware management To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:381f7d06-e79b-46be-982a-a9afb0b96247 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2010 Castaneda, O.F. Files PDF FinalThesis_OscarCastaned ... ov2010.pdf 10.89 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:381f7d06-e79b-46be-982a-a9afb0b96247/datastream/OBJ/view