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Software systems rely heavily on open source software (OSS) libraries, which offer benefits but also pose risks. When vulnerabilities arise, the OSS community may struggle to address them due to inactivity or lack of resources. Research…

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Governments are increasingly employing funding for open source software (OSS) development as a policy lever to support the security of software supply chains, digital sovereignty, economic growth, and national competitiveness in science and…

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In the dynamic landscape of open source software (OSS) development, understanding and addressing incivility within issue discussions is crucial for fostering healthy and productive collaborations. This paper presents a curated dataset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ramtin Ehsani , Mia Mohammad Imran , Robert Zita , Kostadin Damevski , Preetha Chatterjee

Open-source is a decentralized and collaborative method of development that encourages open contribution from an extensive and undefined network of individuals. Although commonly associated with software development (OSS), the open-source…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kathy Cheng , Shurui Zhou , Alison Olechowski

We present a dataset of open source software developed mainly by enterprises rather than volunteers. This can be used to address known generalizability concerns, and, also, to perform research on open source business software development.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Diomidis Spinellis , Zoe Kotti , Konstantinos Kravvaritis , Georgios Theodorou , Panos Louridas

Attracting and retaining a steady stream of new contributors is crucial to ensuring the long-term survival of open-source software (OSS) projects. However, there are two key research gaps regarding recommendations for onboarding new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Asif Kamal Turzo , Sayma Sultana , Amiangshu Bosu

Online Social Networks (OSNs) facilitate access to a variety of data allowing researchers to analyze users' behavior and develop user behavioral analysis models. These models rely heavily on the observed data which is usually biased due to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mansooreh Karami , Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Paras Sheth , Huan Liu

Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-making, and the determinants of successful community…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mobina Noori , Mahasweta Chakraborti , Amy X Zhang , Seth Frey

Gender imbalance in information technology in general, and Free/Open Source Software specifically, is a well-known problem in the field. Still, little is known yet about the large-scale extent and long-term trends that underpin the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Stefano Zacchiroli

Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work has pointed out two kinds of risks in these systems: that technical problems like bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs

CI/CD practices play a significant role during collaborative software development by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as testing, building, quality checking, dependency and security management. GitHub Actions, the CI/CD…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pooya Rostami Mazrae , Alexandre Decan , Tom Mens , Mairieli Wessel

Contributors to open source software packages often describe feeling discouraged by the lack of positive feedback from users. This paper describes a technology probe, Hug Reports, that provides users a communication affordance within their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Pranav Khadpe , Olivia Xu , Geoff Kaufman , Chinmay Kulkarni

Open source software (OSS) forms the backbone of industrial data workflows and enterprise systems. However, many OSS projects face operational risks due to informal or centralized governance. This paper presents a practical case study of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pedro Oliveira , Doris Amoakohene , Toby Hocking , Marco Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

The open-source community uses the GitHub platform to exchange and share software applications and services of interest. This paper aims to identify the open-source community's interest in gender-related projects on GitHub. Our findings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Rita Garcia , Christoph Treude , Wendy La

Knowledge about the roles developers play in a software project is crucial to understanding the project's collaborative dynamics. Developers are often classified according to the dichotomy of core and peripheral roles. Typically,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Mitchell Joblin , Sven Apel , Claus Hunsen , Wolfgang Mauerer

Open-source code development has become widespread in recent years. As a result, open-source software platforms have also become popular, and millions of developers from diverse locations are able to contribute to the same projects. On…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Abdulkadir Şeker , Banu Diri , Halil Arslan

Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-23 Miklós Koren , Gábor Békés , Julian Hinz , Aaron Lohmann

Effort estimation models are a fundamental tool in software management, and used as a forecast for resources, constraints and costs associated to software development. For Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, effort estimation is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Gregorio Robles , Andrea Capiluppi , Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona , Bjorn Lundell , Jonas Gamalielsson

Open-source software (OSS) is foundational to modern digital infrastructure, yet this context for group work continues to struggle to ensure sufficient contributions in many critical cases. This literature review explores how artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 S M Rakib UI Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins

Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer's interests within and across GitHub and Stack…

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