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Background: Open Source Software (OSS) started as an effort of communities ofvolunteers, but its practices have been adopted far beyond these initialscenarios. For instance, the strategic use of OSS in industry is constantlygrowing nowadays in different verticals, including energy, automotive, andhealth. For the public sector, however, the adoption has lagged behind even ifbenefits particularly salient in the public sector context such as improvedinteroperability, transparency, and digital sovereignty have been pointed out.When Public Sector Organisations (PSOs) seek to engage with OSS, thisintroduces challenges as they often lack the necessary technical capabilities,while also being bound and influenced by regulations and practices for publicprocurement. Aim: We aim to shed light on how public sector OSS projects, i.e.,projects initiated, developed and governed by public sector organizations, aredeveloped and structured. We conjecture, based on the challenges of PSOs, thatthe way development is organized in these type of projects to a large extentdisalign with the commonly adopted bazaar model (popularized by Eric Raymond),which implies that development is carried out collaboratively in a largercommunity. Method: We plan to contrast public sector OSS projects with a set ofearlier reported case studies of bazaar OSS projects, including Mockus et al.'sreporting of the Apache web server and Mozilla browser OSS projects, along withthe replications performed on the FreeBSD, JBossAS, JOnAS, and Apache GeronimoOSS projects. To enable comparable results, we will replicate the methodologyused by Mockus et al. on a purposefully sampled subset of public sector OSSprojects. The subset will be identified and characterized quantitatively bymining relevant software repositories, and qualitatively investigated throughinterviews with individuals from involved organizations.

Public Sector Open Source Software Projects -- How is development organized?