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Paper: 24 Title: Temporal Changes of the Openness of an OSS community: A Case study of the Apache HTTP Server Community
PAPER: 24 TITLE: Temporal Changes of the Openness of an OSS community: A Case study of the Apache HTTP Server Community
OVERALL RATING: 2 (weak reject) REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 2 (medium) Coolness of proposed technologies: 2 (poor) Originality novelty: 2 (poor) Relevance to the call of papers: 2 (poor) Significance to theory and practice: 2 (poor) Readability and organization: 3 (fair) Recommendation for the Best Paper Award: 1 (very weak)
Please provide your detailed review below, which will be sent to the authors: This paper presents the how the community openness influence the success of OSS community. It examined the case of Apache HTTP server community and tried to validate their two hypotheses. Although it seems that their hypotheses were supported according to the data provided, it is clear that this analyses are at relatively early stage of its investigation and it is far too soon to conclude that those hypotheses are supported. For example, the data provided do not consider downturn of .com and IT industry. Furthermore, the analysis does not make any reference to the type or quality of contributors. Were the quality of non-core members consistent through out this study period? Didn't ".com crash" have any effect on the composition of types of non-core members? Moreover, it was not clear that the decrease of the number of non-core members was caused by the decrease of the acceptance or other way around. The main reason why this question is asked is that there is no adequate explanation about what caused the changes between the first half (1997-2002) and the last half (2003-2007). Hence, it warrants further investigation.
PAPER: 24 TITLE: Temporal Changes of the Openness of an OSS community: A Case study of the Apache HTTP Server Community
OVERALL RATING: 3 (accept as a poster if it was originally submitted as a full paper) REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 3 (high) Coolness of proposed technologies: 3 (fair) Originality novelty: 3 (fair) Relevance to the call of papers: 4 (good) Significance to theory and practice: 4 (good) Readability and organization: 4 (good) Recommendation for the Best Paper Award: 3 (fair)
The result of the paper is interesting. But the author analyzed the Apache HTTP Server Community. The OSS is one of most successful communities. I probably think that the authors need to compare with a successful community and a non-successful community.
PAPER: 24 TITLE: Temporal Changes of the Openness of an OSS community: A Case study of the Apache HTTP Server Community
OVERALL RATING: 4 (weak accept as the original category) REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 2 (medium) Coolness of proposed technologies: 3 (fair) Originality novelty: 3 (fair) Relevance to the call of papers: 4 (good) Significance to theory and practice: 3 (fair) Readability and organization: 3 (fair) Recommendation for the Best Paper Award: 2 (weak)
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The idea presented in this paper is interesting, though not brand new. And the work is basically solid.
Application issues are highly expected to be addressed.
PAPER: 24 TITLE: Temporal Changes of the Openness of an OSS community: A Case study of the Apache HTTP Server Community
OVERALL RATING: 1 (strong reject) REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 2 (medium) Coolness of proposed technologies: 1 (very poor) Originality novelty: 2 (poor) Relevance to the call of papers: 1 (very poor) Significance to theory and practice: 1 (very poor) Readability and organization: 4 (good) Recommendation for the Best Paper Award: 1 (very weak)
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This paper deals with quite interesting issues but the scope of the paper is not fitting with technical conferences.
It is recommended to submit it to events or journals related to social sciences.
