Understanding how and why open source contributors use diagrams in the development of Ubuntu Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4789187, abstract = {Some of the most interesting differences between Open Source Software (OSS) development and commercial co-located software development lie in the communication and collaboration practices of these two groups of developers. One interesting practice is that of diagramming. Though well studied and important in many aspects of co-located software development (including communication and collaboration among developers), its role in OSS development has not been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we report our investigation on how and why Ubuntu contributors use diagrams in their work. Our study shows that diagrams are not actively used in many scenarios where they commonly would in co-located software development efforts. We describe differences in the use and practices of diagramming, their possible reasons, and present design considerations for potential systems aimed at better supporting diagram use in OSS development.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Yatani, Koji and Chung, Eunyoung and Jensen, Carlos and Truong, Khai N.}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4789187}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518853}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518853}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518853}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {collaborative, diagram, distributed, open, source}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {995--1004}, posted-at = {2009-06-09 18:13:04}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Understanding how and why open source contributors use diagrams in the development of Ubuntu}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518853}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4789187 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4789187 N2 - Some of the most interesting differences between Open Source Software (OSS) development and commercial co-located software development lie in the communication and collaboration practices of these two groups of developers. One interesting practice is that of diagramming. Though well studied and important in many aspects of co-located software development (including communication and collaboration among developers), its role in OSS development has not been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we report our investigation on how and why Ubuntu contributors use diagrams in their work. Our study shows that diagrams are not actively used in many scenarios where they commonly would in co-located software development efforts. We describe differences in the use and practices of diagramming, their possible reasons, and present design considerations for potential systems aimed at better supporting diagram use in OSS development. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1004 TI - Understanding how and why open source contributors use diagrams in the development of Ubuntu PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 995 KW - collaborative KW - diagram KW - distributed KW - open KW - source AU - Yatani, Koji AU - Chung, Eunyoung AU - Jensen, Carlos AU - Truong, Khai PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518853 ER -