A software development methodology was initiated from the concept of sharing the source code. In 1998 it was named as open source software development. It is a complete software development methodology, in which all the participants are connected through internet. It has great promises to produce high quality software projects with low cost, which is difficult to do in preparatory software development. The objective of this review is to highlight the issues of open source software development. To achieve the benefits of OSSD, we have to perform risk assessment first. These issues produce great hurdles in the way of success. We have conducted a review of issue analysis. In this review issues are identifies, by which it is easy to mitigate them. We have analyzed the empirical studies. These studies have provided us lot of evidence for issues. These reported issues are needed to mitigate with a systematic way. By removing the limitations of OSSD, it is easy to develop the software project with low cost and high quality.