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Table 6 The indicators about developer

From: Evaluation indicators for open-source software: a review

Paper

# Quantification

Indicator Affect Developer

Correlation

 

Add new features

  

Raymond (1999)

Fix bugs

N.A.

N.A.

 

Release new versions

  
  

Social values

 

Markus et al. (2000)

N.A.

(Altruism, reputation,

Positive

  

and ideology)

 

Crowston et al. (2003)

Developer type

N.A.

N.A.

 

Developer satisfaction

  
 

Developers

  

Crowston et al. (2004)

Bug fixing time

N.A.

N.A.

 

Project activity

  

Fershtman et al. (2004)

Output of each developer

License

Negative

 

-

License

Negative

Subramaniam (2009)

Developer interest

Target audience

Unsureness

 

Activity level

User interest

Positive

Garousi (2009)

Developers

N.A.

N.A.

 

Bug-fixing performance

  

Midha et al. (2012)

Developers (CVS log files)

N.A.

N.A.

 

-

Project centrality

Positive

Wu et al. (2007)

Project activity

Project density

Negative

 

Popularity

Financial support

Positive

Colazo (2005)

Developers

N.A.

N.A.

 

and its contribution

  
 

Follower

-

-

Tsay et al. (2012)

Projects owned

Task focus

Positive

 

Projects contributed

Work concentration

Positive

 

Developers

  

Colazo et al. (2009)

Activity level

Copyleft

Positive

 

Developer permanence

  
 

Development speed

  
 

Project activity

  

Lerner (2005)

Developers

N.A.

N.A.

 

Bugs or errors

  

Senyard and Michlmayr (2004)

N.A.

Leadership

Positive

  

Communication effectiveness

Positive

Hata et al. (2015)

N.A.

Documents

Positive

  

Social values

Positive

  

Popularity

Positive

Fronchetti et al. (2019)

N.A.

Documents

Positive

  

Project age

Positive

  

Program languages

Positive

  1. 1Task focus presents how much focus developer has contributed on projects
  2. 2Work concentration presents how much developers have contributed for a certain project in all his projects