Taking stock of the bazaar: the third workshop on open source software engineering
Background The first workshop on open source software (OSS) engineering – Making Sense of the Bazaar – demonstrated the existence of a lively and motivated community of software engineering practitioners and researchers interested in OSS. The goal of the second workshop in the series – Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success – was to nurture this community, and to focus the discussion on both the short and long term sustainability of the OSS phenomenon. The participants at both of these workshops argued that despite the emergence of a substantial and diverse research literature on OSS our knowledge of the OSS family of software engineering processes, methods and tools remained far from complete.