Research Article
Understanding Contributor to Developer Turnover Patterns in OSS Projects: A Case Study of Apache Projects
Table 5
Average contribution rate of a potential developer comparing to other members of the project before attaining the role of a developer.
| | Variable | Mean | St. dev |
| | Apache Ant (n = 13) | | bugs reported | 11.15 | 13.25 | | bug comments | 10.43 | 8.35 | | bug social relation | 8.42 | 6.65 | | emails | 19.89 | 16.25 | | email social relation | 10.97 | 8.42 | | Apache Lucene (n = 22) | | bugs reported | 4.53 | 3.09 | | bug comments | 4.08 | 2.89 | | bug social relation | 3.18 | 1.73 | | emails | 3.91 | 3.27 | | email social relation | 6.23 | 4.42 | | Apache Maven (n = 21) | | bugs reported | 4.05 | 3.68 | | bug comments | 2.36 | 2.01 | | bug social relation | 2.44 | 1.98 | | emails | 4.05 | 5.76 | | email social relation | 4.31 | 3.34 | | Apache Solr (n = 13) | | bugs reported | 4.56 | 5.77 | | bug comments | 4.4 | 4.72 | | bug social relation | 2.52 | 2.15 | | emails | 1.05 | 1.07 | | email social relation | 2.71 | 1.95 |
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