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[Context] Open Source Software (OSS) is nowadays used and integrated in most of the commercial products. However, the selection of OSS projects for integration is not a simple process, mainly due to a of lack of clear selection models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xiaozhou Li , Sergio Moreschini , Zheying Zhang , Davide Taibi

Cross-community collaboration can exploit the expertise and knowledges of crowds in different communities. Recently increasing users in open source software (OSS) community like GitHub attempt to gather software requirements from question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hao Huang , Yao Lu , Xinjun Mao

GitHub Sponsors, launched in 2019, enables donations to individual open source software (OSS) developers. Financial support for OSS maintainers and developers is a major issue in terms of sustaining OSS projects, and the ability to donate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Naomichi Shimada , Tao Xiao , Hideaki Hata , Christoph Treude , Kenichi Matsumoto

Developers often struggle to navigate an Open Source Software (OSS) project's issue-tracking system and find a suitable task. Proper issue labeling can aid task selection, but current tools are limited to classifying the issues according to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Joseph Vargovich , Fabio Santos , Jacob Penney , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Invisible labor is work that is either not fully visible or not appropriately compensated. In open source software (OSS) ecosystems, essential tasks that do not involve code (like content moderation) often become invisible to the detriment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-13 John Meluso , Amanda Casari , Katie McLaughlin , Milo Z. Trujillo

Context: To attract, onboard, and retain any new-comer in Open Source Software (OSS) projects is vital to their livelihood. Recent studies conclude that OSS projects risk failure due to abandonment and poor participation of newcomers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ifraz Rehman , Dong Wang , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Kenichi Matsumoto

Open Source Software (OSS) has been recognized by the software development community as an effective way to deliver software. Unlike traditional software development, OSS development is driven by collaboration among developers spread…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Bianca Minetto Napoleão , Fabio Petrillo , Sylvain Hallé

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

Context: GitHub hosts an impressive number of high-quality OSS projects. However, selecting "the right tool for the job" is a challenging task, because we do not have precise information about those high-quality projects. Objective: In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Jailton Coelho , Marco Tulio Valente , Luciano Milen , Luciana L. Silva

We conduct the first comprehensive study of the behavioral factors which predict leader emergence within open source software (OSS) virtual teams. We leverage the full history of developers' interactions with their teammates and projects at…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jerome Hergueux , Samuel Kessler

In open-source software (OSS), software vulnerabilities have significantly increased. Although researchers have investigated the perspectives of vulnerability reporters and OSS contributor security practices, understanding the perspectives…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

Existing innovation metrics inadequately capture software innovation, creating blind spots for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand and foster technological innovation in an increasingly software-defined economy. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Eva Maxfield Brown , Cailean Osborne , Peter Cihon , Moritz Böhmecke-Schwafert , Kevin Xu , Mirko Boehm , Knut Blind

Nowadays, many software projects are partially or completely open-source based. There is an increasing need for companies to participate in open-source software (OSS) projects, e.g., in order to benefit from open source ecosystems. OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Fabian Fagerholm , Patrik Johnson , Alejandro Sánchez Guinea , Jay Borenstein , Jürgen Münch

Many software developers rely on open source software for developing their applications and writing their source codes. Measuring an independent project's overall productivity is still an open problem for many technology companies. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Jinxiao Song , Terry Guan , Seongwoo Choi , Sutej Kulkarni

This paper studies community formation in OSS collaboration networks. While most current work examines the emergence of small-scale OSS projects, our approach draws on a large-scale historical dataset of 1.8 million GitHub users and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Brandon L. Kramer , J. Bayoan Santiago Calderon , Gizem Korkmaz

Background: Accurate representation of developer expertise has always been an important research problem. While a number of studies proposed novel methods of representing expertise within individual projects, these methods are difficult to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Tapajit Dey , Andrey Karnauch , Audris Mockus

The proliferation of open source software (OSS) and different types of reuse has made it incredibly difficult to perform an essential legal and compliance task of accurate license identification within the software supply chain. This study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mahmoud Jahanshahi , David Reid , Adam McDaniel , Audris Mockus

The use of open-source software (OSS) is ever-increasing, and so is the number of open-source vulnerabilities being discovered and publicly disclosed. The gains obtained from the reuse of community-developed libraries may be offset by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Serena E. Ponta , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

Open Source Software (OSS) development challenges traditional software engineering practices. In particular, OSS projects are managed by a large number of volunteers, working freely on the tasks they choose to undertake. OSS projects also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Warren Sack , Françoise Détienne , Nicholas Ducheneaut , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Dilan Mahendran , Flore Barcellini