Towards Assessing Open Source Communities' Health using SOC Concepts
Quality of an open source software ecosystem (OSS ecosystem) is key for different ecosystem actors such as contributors or adopters. In fact, the consideration of several quality aspects(e.g., activeness, visibility, interrelatedness, etc.) as a whole may provide a measure of the healthiness of OSS ecosystems. The more health a OSS ecosystem is, the more and better contributors and adopters it will gather. Some research tools have been developed to gather specific quality information from open source community data sources. However, there exist no frameworks available that can be used to evaluate their quality as a whole in order to obtain the health of an OSS ecosystem. To assess the health of these ecosystems, we propose to adopt robust principles and methods from the Service Oriented Computing field. ; European Union EC-FP7 project RISCOSS (agr. 318249) ; Junta de Andalucía P12--TIC--1867 ; Junta de Andalucía TIC-5906 ; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2012-32273 ; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2013-44641-P ; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad IPT-2013-0890-3 ; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2014-53986-REDT