Understanding FLOSS through community publications: strategies for grey literature review

摘要: Over the last decades, Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) phenomenon has been a topic of study and source real-life artifacts for software engineering research. A FLOSS project usually community around its project, organically producing informative resources to describe how, when, why particular change occurred in code or development flow. Therefore, when studying this kind collecting analyzing texts can promote more comprehensive understanding variety organizational settings. However, despite importance examining Grey Literature (GL), such as technical reports, white papers, magazines, blog posts projects, GL Review is still an emerging technique studies, lacking well-established investigative methodology. To mitigate gap, we present discuss challenges adaptations planning execution reviews scenario. We provide set guidelines lessons learned further research, using, example, review are conducting on Linux kernel model.