FlOSS Managed Data Sources Maturity Level: a first attempt

Many organizations have started to integrate Free (libre) Open Source Software and are currently faced with the problem of selecting the components that meet their quality needs, in particular, regarding their evolvability and their robustness. Their assessment is often performed via ad hoc investigations on a few publicly available data sources such as IT newspapers and the internet because of a lack of time and methodology. This paper1 identifies and describes some of the major electronic data sources where the information can be extracted during the assessment of the evolvability (and the maturity level) of FlOSS.