The influence of properties of open source projects on its popularity with developers

Marijn de Graaf

Popularity measures

• Number of contributors• Number of commits • Commits per contributor

Project measures

• License • Programming language• (compare with language popularities)

• (Quality) metrics• Comment percentage• (Many more)

• Size (LOC, mediating variable)• …

Plans

• First: many projects, few metrics• (statistical significance, available metrics)

• Second: less projects, more metrics

• Cause or effect: which increases first, metric or popularity?