Dear colleagues, I am looking for papers and research approaching the issue of personality traits of Debian developers, or any developer of a project comparable to Debian. This may be a bit of a stretch, as Debian *does* stand out quite a bit, but I think that when it comes to developer traits, projects such as the Linux kernel, Apache, Gnome, etc. do not differ that much. What I am looking for is work backing up claims such as "Debian developers are perfectionist" or "highly-skilled" or "excited about learning new techniques", etc. So far, I have found only very little (apart from my own writing and blog posts, or wiki pages), and nothing peer-reviewed, and thus I am turning to you. Have you any references you could share with me? Once I assembled a bit more data, I intend to take this public and have some sort of Delphi-style development of a traits list, to which I plan to invite the general public. This is the wiki where I collect stuff right now: http://phd.martin-krafft.net/wiki/traits/ Thanks in advance! -- Martin F. Krafft <mailto:martin.krafft@ul.ie> Ph.D. student http://martin-krafft.net/phd Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre University of Limerick, Ireland
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