Category: popularity
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Decline in downloads of once popular packages
What happens to the popularity of Open source packages, measured in monthly downloads, once they cease to be updated or attract new users? If the software does not have any competition within its domain, there is no reason why its popularity should decline. In practice, there are usually alternative packages offering the same or similar…
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Program fault reports are caused by its users
Faults are generated by users of the software; no users, no fault reports. Fault reports will be generated for software that is free of coding mistakes; one study found that 42.6% of fault reports were misclassified as either requests for an enhancement, changes to documentation, or a refactoring request, or not requiring changes to the…