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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…

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Despite the long history of studying instant messaging usage, we know very little about how today's people participate in group chat channels and interact with others inside a real-world organization. In this short paper, we aim to update…

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Context: Leadership has been extensively studied in management and agile software development; however, prior research predominantly focuses on formal roles and predefined leadership models, offering limited insight into how leadership is…

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The success of an open source software (OSS) project requires effective communication among its members. Given that OSS projects often have established social status systems, much communication may happen between individuals of different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yisi Han , Zhendong Wang , Yang Feng , Zhihong Zhao , Yi Wang

Given the democratic nature of open source development, code review and issue discussions may be uncivil. Incivility, defined as features of discussion that convey an unnecessarily disrespectful tone, can have negative consequences to open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Isabella Ferreira , Ahlaam Rafiq , Jinghui Cheng

Governance has been highlighted as a key factor in the success of an Open Source Software (OSS) project. It is generally seen that in a mixed meritocracy and autocracy governance model, the decision-making (DM) responsibility regarding what…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Pankajeshwara Nand Sharma , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu , Nigel Stanger

Modern open source software development heavily relies on the issue tracking systems to manage their feature requests, bug reports, tasks, and other similar artifacts. Together, those "issues" form a complex network with links to each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Nicholson , Jin L. C. Guo

Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Reydne Santos , Rafa Prado , Ana Paula de Holanda Silva , Kiev Gama , Fernando Castor , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software development, which emphasizes self-management and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Lucas Gren , Paul Ralph

Open Source Software projects add labels to open issues to help contributors choose tasks. However, manually labeling issues is time-consuming and error-prone. Current automatic approaches for creating labels are mostly limited to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Fabio Santos , Igor Wiese , Bianca Trinkenreich , Igor Steinmacher , Anita Sarma , Marco Gerosa

The presence of toxic and gender-identity derogatory language in open-source software (OSS) communities has recently become a focal point for researchers. Such comments not only lead to frustration and disengagement among developers but may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sayma Sultana , Gias Uddin , Amiangshu Bosu

Out-of-scope (OOS) intent detection is a critical challenge in task-oriented dialogue systems (TODS), as it ensures robustness to unseen and ambiguous queries. In this work, we propose a novel but simple modular framework that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Álvaro Zaera , Diana Nicoleta Popa , Ivan Sekulic , Paolo Rosso

Open Source Software (OSS) is a cornerstone of contemporary software development, yet the increasing prevalence of OSS project abandonment threatens global software supply chains. Although previous research has explored abandonment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yiming Xu , Runzhi He , Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou , Huaimin Wang

To foster collaboration and inclusivity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, it is crucial to understand and detect patterns of toxic language that may drive contributors away, especially those from underrepresented communities. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ramtin Ehsani , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Preetha Chatterjee

Existing Open Vocabulary Detection (OVD) models exhibit a number of challenges. They often struggle with semantic consistency across diverse inputs, and are often sensitive to slight variations in input phrasing, leading to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Maryam Hosseini , Marco Cipriano , Sedigheh Eslami , Daniel Hodczak , Liu Liu , Andres Sevtsuk , Gerard de Melo

Open source software (OSS) development relies on diverse skill sets. However, to our knowledge, there are no tools which detect OSS-related skills. In this paper, we present a novel method to detect OSS skills and prototype it in a tool…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Jenny T. Liang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Early identification of emergent topics is of eminent importance due to their potential impacts on society. There are many methods for detecting emerging terms and topics, all with advantages and drawbacks. However, there is no consensus…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Ali Ghaemmaghami , Andrea Schiffauerova , Ashkan Ebadi

Social coding platforms have revolutionized collaboration in software development, leading to using software bots for streamlining operations. However, The presence of open-source software (OSS) bots gives rise to problems including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fenglin Bi , Zhiwei Zhu , Wei Wang , Xiaoya Xia , Hassan Ali Khan , Peng Pu

Onboarding newcomers is vital for the sustainability of open-source software (OSS) projects. To lower barriers and increase engagement, OSS projects have dedicated experts who provide guidance for newcomers. However, timely responses are…

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