Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Tag: Publication

  • Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]

    Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]

    Abstract We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We…

  • Challenges of tracking and documenting open source dependencies in products [OSS 2020]

    Challenges of tracking and documenting open source dependencies in products [OSS 2020]

    Software vendors need to manage the dependencies of the open source components used in their products. Without this management, license compliance would be impossible, export restrictions could not be maintained, and security vulnerabilities would remain unknown to the vendor. The management of these dependencies has grown in an ad-hoc fashion in most companies. As such,…

  • The ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source foundation [OSS 2020]

    The ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source foundation [OSS 2020]

    Companies without expertise in software development can opt to form consortia to develop open source software to meet their needs, as an alternative to the build-or-buy decision. Such user-led foundations are little understood, due to a limited number of published examples. In particular, almost nothing is known about the ecosystems surrounding user-led foundations. Our work…

  • Pattern discovery and validation using scientific research methods [Technical Report]

    Pattern discovery and validation using scientific research methods [Technical Report]

    Abstract: Pattern discovery, the process of discovering previously unrecognized patterns, is usually performed as an ad-hoc process with little resulting certainty in the quality of the proposed patterns. Pattern validation, the process of validating the accuracy of proposed patterns, has rarely gone beyond the simple heuristic of “the rule of three”. This article shows how…

  • Industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse [EuroPLoP 2019]

    Industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse [EuroPLoP 2019]

    Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies address these threats with free/libre and open source software (FLOSS)…

  • Industry best practices for corporate open sourcing [HICSS 2020]

    Industry best practices for corporate open sourcing [HICSS 2020]

    Abstract: Companies usually don’t share the source code for the software they develop. While this approach is justified in software that constitutes differentiating intellectual property, proprietary development can lead to redundant development and other opportunity costs. In response, companies are increasingly open sourcing some if not all of their non-differentiating software. Given the limited academic…