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A Comparative Review and Data-Driven Analysis of Open-Source Software Development Trends
Abstract: Open-source software (OSS) underpins a substantial portion of modern software infrastructure. Despite its importance, comparative empirical analyses that jointly examine development velocity, popularity–maintenance relationships, and cross-domain differences remain limited. This paper presents a data-driven comparative study of 28 high-impact open-source repositories spanning web frameworks, machine learning systems, infrastructure tooling, and programming language runtimes. Drawing on repository metadata, 7,082 issues, and 248,320 pull requests, we quantify issue resolution times, pull-request merge …
Published in Journal of Open Source Developments · Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 1–9 Read article