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DEFINING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECT SUCCESS

Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison

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Information systems success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems research.In this paper, we identify a range of measures that can be used to assess the success of open source software (OSS) projects.We identify measures based on a review of the literature, a consideration of the OSS development process and an analysis of the opinions of OSS developers.For each measure, we provide examples of how they might be used in a study of OSS development.

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Key concepts: Computer science, Open source software, Open source, Measure (data warehouse), Software development, Data science, Software, Process (computing)