论文标题
针对从事开源软件生态系统的公司的贡献管理框架 - 研究预览
A Contribution Management Framework for Firms Engaged in Open Source Software Ecosystems -- A Research Preview
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论文摘要
上下文和动机：贡献管理可以帮助从事开源软件（OSS）生态系统的公司激励他们应该做出的贡献以及何时贡献，也应该在多大程度上将资源集中在何种程度上。此类准则也称为贡献策略。制定量身定制贡献策略的动机是最大程度地提高投资回报率并维持生态系统所需的影响力。问题/问题：我们旨在开发一个框架，以帮助公司了解其当前状况，并创建一个开发有效贡献管理过程的起点。主要思想/结果：通过设计科学方法，基于文献创建了原型框架，并通过访谈通过专家意见进行了迭代验证。贡献：在本研究预览中，我们在第一个设计周期后介绍了我们的初步结果，并与一位面向OSS的大型软件密集型公司的一位经验丰富的OSS经理进行了咨询。最初的验证强调了利益相关者识别和分析的重要性，以及对内部产品计划的贡献管理和一致性的一般需求。这鼓励未来的工作使用专家和案例验证进一步开发框架。
Context and motivation: Contribution Management helps firms engaged in Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems to motivate what they should contribute and when, but also what they should focus their resources on and to what extent. Such guidelines are also referred to as contribution strategies. The motivation for developing tailored contribution strategies is to maximize return on investment and sustain the influence needed in the ecosystem. Question/Problem: We aim to develop a framework to help firms understand their current situation and create a starting point to develop an effective contribution management process. Principal ideas/results: Through a design science approach, a prototype framework is created based on literature and validated iteratively with expert opinions through interviews. Contribution: In this research preview, we present our initial results after our first design cycle and consultation with one experienced OSS manager at a large OSS oriented software-intensive firm. The initial validation highlights importance of stakeholder identification and analysis, as well as the general need for contribution management and alignment with internal product planning. This encourages future work to develop the framework further using expert and case validation.
