Open Source Software (OSS) communities often resist regulation typical of traditional organizations. Yet formal governance systems are being increasingly adopted among communities, particularly through non-profit mentor foundations. Our study looks at the Apache Software Foundation Incubator program and 208 projects it supports. We assemble a scalable, semantic pipeline to discover and analyze the governance behavior of projects from their mailing lists. We then investigate the reception of formal policies among communities, through their own governance priorities and internalization of the policies. Our findings indicate that while communities observe formal requirements and policies as extensively as they are defined, their day-to-day governance focus does not dwell on topics that see most formal policy-making. Moreover formalization, be it dedicating governance focus or adopting policy, has limited association with project sustenance.

翻译：开源软件（OSS）社区通常抵制传统组织所特有的正规管理规范。然而，正式治理体系正日益被社区采纳，特别是通过非营利性的导师基金会。本研究聚焦于Apache软件基金会孵化器项目及其支持的208个项目。我们构建了一个可扩展的语义分析管道，通过项目邮件列表发现并分析其治理行为。进而研究正式政策在社区中的接受程度，包括社区自身的治理优先级以及对政策的内部化程度。研究结果表明：尽管社区对正式要求与政策的遵循程度与其定义范围一致，但其日常治理焦点并未集中在正式政策制定最密集的议题上。此外，正式化——无论是投入治理重点还是采纳政策——与项目持续性之间的关联较为有限。