核心贡献者的兴衰：Gentoo社区社会组织和绩效的动态
The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community
摘要：
社会组织和劳动分工对协作式软件工程工作的绩效有着至关重要的影响。在本文中，我们提供了一个定量分析的社会组织和性能之间的关系在Gentoo，一个开源社区开发的Linux发行版。我们研究的结构和动态的合作记录在项目的错误跟踪系统在一个为期十年。我们确定了一个时期的中心化，在此之后，在社区中的大多数互动是由一个单一的中央贡献者介导的。在这个高度集中的时期，核心贡献者出人意料地离开了项目，从而给社区带来了重大挑战。我们量化了这个核心贡献者的崛起、活动以及随后的突然退出如何影响了Gentoo社区的社会组织和错误处理性能。我们从网络理论的角度分析社会组织，并通过采访Gentoo社区的杰出成员来增加我们的定量研究结果，这些成员分享了他们的个人见解。
英文摘要：
Social organization and division of labor crucially influence the performance of collaborative software engineering efforts. In this paper, we provide a quantitative analysis of the relation between social organization and performance in Gentoo, an Open Source community developing a Linux distribution. We study the structure and dynamics of collaborations as recorded in the project's bug tracking system over a period of ten years. We identify a period of increasing centralization after which most interactions in the community were mediated by a single central contributor. In this period of maximum centralization, the central contributor unexpectedly left the project, thus posing a significant challenge for the community. We quantify how the rise, the activity as well as the subsequent sudden dropout of this central contributor affected both the social organization and the bug handling performance of the Gentoo community. We analyze social organization from the perspective of network theory and augment our quantitative findings by interviews with prominent members of the Gentoo community which shared their personal insights.
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