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Free/Open Source Software Development Practices in the Computer Game Community. IEEE Software 21(1) 5967 January/February 2004. W. Scacchi ...

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Computer Games Open Source Software and other SocioTechnical ProcessesPage 11Computer Games OpenSource Software and otherSocioTechnical ProcessesWalt ScacchiInstitute for Software ResearchandGame Culture and Technology LaboratoryUniversity of California IrvineIrvine CA 926973425 USAhttp://www.ics.uci.edu/wscacchiPage 22Page 33Game World StatsGame World StatsPage 4Page 5Page 66Page 77Page 88Page 99Page 1010What is free/open source softwaredevelopment? Free (as in freedom) vs. open source Freedom to access browse/view study modify andredistribute the source code Free is always open but open is not always free F/OSSD is not software engineering Different: F/OSSD can be faster better and cheaperthan SE in some circumstances F/OSSD involves more software development tools Webresources and personal computing resourcesPage 1111OSS Development Models Free Software (GPL) Open Source (BSD/MIT Mozilla Apache) Corporate Source (HewlettPackard) Consortium/Alliance (OSDL SugarCRM) CorporateSponsored (IBMEclipse SunNetbeans SunOpenOffice HPGelato) Community Source (Sakai Westwood) *Shared Source (Microsoft)Page 1212OSSD Project Characteristics OSS Developers are always users of what they buildwhile OSS users (>1%) are also OSS developers Requires critical mass of contributors and OSScomponents connected through sociotechnicalinteraction networks OSSD projects emerge/evolve via bricolage Unanticipated architectural (de)compositions Multiproject component integrations OSSD teams use 1050 OSSD tools to support theirdevelopment workPage 1313OSSD Project Characteristics Operational code early and oftenactively improved andcontinuously adapted Postfacto software system requirements and design OSSD is not Software Engineering OSSD has its own ilities which differ from those for SE Caution: the vast majority of OSSD projects fail to growor to produce a beta release.Page 1414F/OSS Processes for Requirementsor Design F/OSS Requirements/Designs not explicit not formal F/OSS Requirements/D ...

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