Among other funding activities, Google's
Open Source Program Office is sponsoring Martin
Michlmayr's PhD research on "Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free Software
Projects: Exploring the Impact of Release Management."
While Martin
won't be publishing his findings
until he completes his thesis in 2007, Bruce Byfield with NewsForge has just published an article
which provides an overview of Martin's research and into quality assurance, release management
and usability in free software projects.
