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Abstract: Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams provide an interesting and convenient setting for studying distributed work. We begin by answering perhaps the most basic question: what is the social structure of these teams? Based on a social network analysis of interactions represented in 62,110 bug reports from 122 large and active projects, we find that some OSS teams are highly centralized, but contrary to expectation, others are not. Projects are mostly quite hierarchical on four ... (Update)
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@misc{ and-hierarchy,
author = "Kevin Crowston And",
title = "Hierarchy and centralization in Free and Open Source Software team communications",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/736094.html" }
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