The open source software (OSS) movement thrives on innovation and volunteer effort of developers. Scholars have expressed widespread concern about the sustainability of the OSS movement due to high levels of volunteerism. In this paper, we address a central challenge to the sustainability of...

Growing popularity of OSS has attracted millions of developers to social coding platforms such as GitHub.com. However, it appears that OSS software is becoming a victim of its own success because finding the right project, among millions of projects hosted on social coding platforms, is a...

In recent years, the success of open source software (OSS) has attracted proprietary software firms, who now actively participate, and sponsor OSS development. Though researchers agree that for the progress of OSS projects, financial support, rewards, and incentives are critical if not...