Study on exploring the impact of release management to enhance the quality of open source software project management

Abstract

Open Source Software OSS has made a major impact on the software industry all over the world both in the developed and as well as in the developing countries Basically the Open Source Software Project Management OSSPM is virtually distributed method of development with the involvement of volunteers as software developers who are located geographically in various regions In a broader perspective Open Source Software is developed in a collaborative manner and it has created a substantial amount of software Besides the steep increase in number of volunteers being actively involved in Open Source Software Development OSSD the software development procedure is often described as unstructured and unorganized The Open Source Software concept offers not only low cost of technology acquisition but also an efficient scheme of cooperation to exploit such technology The most well known and successful Open Source Software projects such as Apache Web Server and Linux Operating System have confirmed the attractiveness of open source project management as a new method of producing software While open source software has proved to be popular and is often found to be better quality than proprietary software it is still not clear as to what factors contribute either directly or indirectly to this quality