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Herding in open source software development: an exploratory study

In spite of the lack of organizational control, a large number of these self-organized groups have successfully developed high quality software in open source software projects. We examined the process through which coordinated action emerges from the collection of individual developers' choices, i.e., how bottom-up coordination occurs and argue that developer herding on a social coding platform may have a positive impact on OSSD outcomes. As an exploratory study, we analyzed the participation patterns in 10 randomly sampled OSSD projects on a social open source code foundry, Github. Based on the findings we generate theoretical propositions regarding developer herding behavior in OSSD.