Voting for Bugs in Firefox
In: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
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In this paper, we present preliminary evidence suggesting that the voting mechanism implemented by the open-source Firefox community is a means to provide a supplementary voice to mainstream users. This evidence is drawn from a sample of bug-reports and from information on voters both found within the bug-tracking system (Bugzilla) for Firefox. Although voting is known to be a relatively common feature within the governance structure of many open-source communities, our paper suggests that it also plays a role as a bridge between the mainstream users in the periphery of the community and developers at the core.
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Voting for Bugs in Firefox
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Dalle, Jean-Michel ; Matthijs den Besten |
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Zeitschrift: | SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 |
Veröffentlichung: | Elsevier BV, 2010 |
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ISSN: | 1556-5068 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.1713785 |
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