01373nas a2200133   4500008004100000022001400041245004400055210004300099260004200142520097800184100001901162700002201181856003601203       2008                        eng d  a1913-610200aCommunity Building: NetBSD in Hindsight0 aCommunity Building NetBSD in Hindsight  aOttawabTalent First Networkc10/20083 aThe NetBSD Project is one of the oldest modern open source software projects. It provides an operating system that runs on over 50 hardware architectures (also called ports), including the IBM PC, Motorola PowerPC, and Sun UltraSPARC machines. Founded in May of 1993, the project has supported the operating system's active development and managed contributions from thousands of individuals.

Prior to the New York City BSD Users Group Conference held in October, 2008, NetBSD developers from across the globe held a face to face meeting for planning and problem solving. Four developers from Sweden, Canada, the US, and Slovakia took a few minutes to think about how the NetBSD community has evolved over the past fifteen years. This article summarizes those perspectives and provides insight into how an open source community maintains development momentum while managing contributions from a large number of volunteers with varying skill levels from across the globe.1 aMaxwell, David1 aSedlacik, Lubomir  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/19501482nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245002000055210002000075260004200095520116800137100001901305856003601324       2008                        eng d  a1913-610200aCoverity Report0 aCoverity Report  aOttawabTalent First Networkc06/20083 aOn May 20, 2008, static analysis tool vendor Coverity released a report entitled "Open Source Report 2008". The report includes information gathered over the first two years of the Coverity Scan project which was developed as part of a contract from the US Department of Homeland Security. Coverity provides its analysis tools to open source projects in order to identify quality and security flaws in the codebases. Once identified, the developers of the open source projects are given the information in order to facilitate hardening of the software.

The report includes information about the progress made by various projects using the Scan service. Additionally, the Scan databases constitute one of the largest and most diverse collections of source code to be built and analyzed while tracking changes to those code bases over a two-year period. This data provides a substantial set of samples for considering some questions about the nature of software. The report investigates relationships between codebase size, defect counts, defect density, function lengths, and code complexity metrics. This article highlights some of the results from the report.1 aMaxwell, David  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/15600938nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245004900055210004900104260004200153520056700195100001900762856003500781       2007                        eng d  a1913-610200aEnsuring the Quality of Open Source Software0 aEnsuring the Quality of Open Source Software  aOttawabTalent First Networkc11/20073 aOpen Source Software (OSS) has been embraced by individuals for decades, but only recently have organizations around the globe looked upon open source as an attractive and practical alternative to proprietary software. In addition to its appealing price tag, usually free, OSS can be inspected, modified, and freely redistributed according to the terms of its license. 

In spite of this, open source developers still find their code quality and security challenged by a question that has followed them from the beginning: "If it's free, how good can it be?"
1 aMaxwell, David  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/58