Research Article

The Economics of Community Open Source Software Projects: An Empirical Analysis of Maintenance Effort

Table 2

Summary statistics of our application sample (total of 393 applications, corresponding to 4,289 versions).

VariableSymbol Mean Median Min Max St.Dev.

Administrators2.13 2.00 1.00 15.00 1.68
Developers4.38 1.00 0.00 132.00 10.31
Team6.52 3.00 1.00 141.00 11.24
Versions 10.91 7.00 2.00 157.00 14.37
Methods 1,398.00 579.00 30.0032,110.00 2,692.00
Time-Entropy 265.29 0.24 4.43E-565,783.00 3,409.80
Unit Effort 7.09 0.26 4.55E-3 1,737.00 88.90
SourceForge.net Ranking16,354.008,349.00 25.0086,840.00 19,406.00
Review Rate (months/version)7.04 4.42 0.05 40.15 7.19