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[Background] An increasing number of commercial firms are participating in Open Source Software (OSS) projects to reduce their development cost and increase technical innovativeness. When collaborating with other firms whose sought values…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Daniela S. Cruzes , Snarby Terje , Pekka Abrahamsson

Developers usually select different open source licenses to restrain the conditions of using open source software, in order to protect intellectual property rights effectively and maintain the long-term development of the software. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Xin Wu , Jian-Yu Wu , Ming-Hui Zhou , Zhi-Qiang Wang , Li-Yun Yang

Easy and mostly free access to the internet has resulted in the growing use of open source software (OSS). However, it is a common perception that closed proprietary software is still superior in areas such as software maintenance and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

Open source software (OSS) often prioritizes technical functionality over usability and UX design. This imbalance limits OSS adoption among broader, non-technical users. Key underlying factors contributing to this issue are the shortage of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Rozhan Hozhabri Nezhad , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng

Mentorship in open source software (OSS) is a vital, multifaceted process that includes onboarding newcomers, fostering skill development, and enhancing community building. This study examines task-focused mentoring strategies that help…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zixuan Feng , Igor Steinmacher , Marco Gerosa , Tyler Menezes , Alexander Serebrenik , Reed Milewicz , Anita Sarma

Interpersonal trust plays a crucial role in facilitating collaborative tasks, such as software development. While previous research recognizes the significance of trust in an organizational setting, there is a lack of understanding in how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Amirali Sajadi , Kostadin Damevski , Preetha Chatterjee

The success of open source software (OSS) projects relies on voluntary contributions from various community roles.Being a committer signifies gaining trust and higher privileges. Substantial studies have focused on the requirements of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xin Tan , Yan Gong , Geyu Huang , Haohua Wu , Li Zhang

Open source development contains contributions from both hired and volunteer software developers. Identification of this status is important when we consider the transferability of research results to the closed source software industry, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Maëlick Claes , Mika Mäntylä , Miikka Kuutila , Umar Farooq

In the world of open-source software (OSS), the number of known vulnerabilities has tremendously increased. The GitHub Advisory Database contains advisories for security risks in GitHub-hosted OSS projects. As of 09/25/2023, there are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) facilitates content production and enhances ideation capabilities, which can significantly influence developer productivity and participation in software development. To explore its impact on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fangchen Song , Ashish Agarwal , Wen Wen

The effect of gender diversity in open source communities has gained increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. For instance, organizations such as the Python Software Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation started actions to…

The use of free and open source software is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source software, despite some reservations in particular regarding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Faheem Ahmed , Piers Campbell , Ahmad Jaffar , Luiz Fernando Capretz

In the early 1980s, Open Source Software emerged as a revolutionary concept amidst the dominance of proprietary software. What began as a revolutionary idea has now become the cornerstone of computer science. Amidst OSS projects, AI is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Matteo Esposito , Andrea Janes , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Davide Taibi

The sense of belonging to a community is a basic human need that impacts an individuals behavior, long-term engagement, and job satisfaction, as revealed by research in disciplines such as psychology, healthcare, and education. Despite much…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Bianca Trinkenreich , Klaas-Jan Stol , Anita Sarma , Daniel M. German , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Online creative communities have been able to develop large, open source software (OSS) projects like Linux and Firefox throughout the successful collaborations carried out over the Internet. These communities have also expanded to creative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Giuseppe Iaffaldano

GitHub is the most popular repository for open source code. It has more than 3.5 million users, as the company declared in April 2013, and more than 10 million repositories, as of December 2013. It has a publicly accessible API and, since…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Antonio Lima , Luca Rossi , Mirco Musolesi

Open Source Software (OSS) sustainability relies on newcomers transitioning to core contributors, but this pipeline is broken, with most newcomers becoming inactive after initial contributions. Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mohamed Ouf , Amr Mohamed , Mariam Guizani

Context: Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity and the ratios of women in Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the industry average. Although the results of recent studies hint the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sayma Sultana , Asif Kamal Turzo , Amiangshu Bosu

We describe data-driven RSE personas: an approach combining software repository mining and data-driven personas applied to research software (RS), an attempt to describe and identify common and rare patterns of Research Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Felicity Anderson , Julien Sindt , Neil Chue Hong