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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Software Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 235392, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/235392 Research Article Assessing the Open Source Development Processes Using OMM Etiel Petrinja and Giancarlo Succi Center for Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Etiel Petrinja, etiel.petrinja@unibz.it Received 14 May 2012; Revised 2 August 2012; Accepted 6 August 2012 Academic Editor: Gerardo Canfora Copyright © 2012 E. Petrinja and G. Succi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The assessment of development practices in Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects can contribute to the improvement of the development process by identifying poor practices and providing a list of necessary practices. Available assessment methods (e.g., Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)) do not address sufficiently FLOSS-specific aspects (e.g., geographically distributed development, importance of the contributions, reputation of the project, etc.). We present a FLOSS-focused, CMMI- like assessment/improvement model: the QualiPSo Open Source Maturity Model (OMM). OMM focuses on the development process. This makes it different from existing assessment models that are focused on the assessment of the product. We have assessed six FLOSS projects using OMM. Three projects were started and led by a software company, and three are developed by three different FLOSS communities. We identified poorly addressed development activities as the number of commit/bug reports, the external contribu