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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

Data from software repositories have become an important foundation for the empirical study of software engineering processes. A recurring theme in the repository mining literature is the inference of developer networks capturing e.g.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Christoph Gote , Ingo Scholtes , Frank Schweitzer

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

A sound Decision-Making (DM) process is key to the successful governance of software projects. In many Open Source Software Development (OSSD) communities, DM processes lie buried amongst vast amounts of publicly available data. Hidden…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Pankajeshwara Nand Sharma , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu , Nigel Stanger

Most research of online communication focuses on modes of communication that are either open (like forums, bulletin boards, Twitter, etc.) or direct (like e-mails). In this work, we study a dataset that has both types of communication…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Fariba Karimi , Verónica C. Ramenzoni , Petter Holme

Faced with over 100M open source projects most empirical investigations select a subset. Most research papers in leading venues investigated filtering projects by some measure of popularity with explicit or implicit arguments that unpopular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Addi Malviya-Thakur , Audris Mockus

The open source development model has become a paradigm shift from traditional in-house/closed-source software development model, with many successes. Traditionally, open source projects were characterized essentially by their individual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Qingye Jiang , Young Choon Lee , Joseph G. Davis , Ablert Y. Zomaya

Software ecosystems are collections of projects that are developed and evolve together in the same environment. Existing literature investigates software ecosystems as isolated entities whose boundaries do not overlap and assumes they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Eleni Constantinou , Alexandre Decan , Tom Mens

We measure cross-boundary collaboration in an open-source software (OSS) ecosystem by reconstructing the bipartite contributor-repository graph of 464 cybersecurity projects and 11,372 contributors active over October 2001-May 2022 (Rawsec…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lucia Gomez Tejeiro , Thibaut Chataing , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Alain Mermoud , Thomas Maillart

Background: Open Source Software (OSS) libraries form the backbone of modern software systems, yet their long-term sustainability often depends on maintainers being reachable for support, coordination, and security reporting. Aims: In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Alexandros Tsakpinis , Alexander Pretschner

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

GitHub is the world's largest platform for collaborative software development, with over 100 million users. GitHub is also used extensively for open data collaboration, hosting more than 800 million open data files, totaling 142 terabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anthony Cintron Roman , Kevin Xu , Arfon Smith , Jehu Torres Vega , Caleb Robinson , Juan M Lavista Ferres

Architecture information is vital for Open Source Software (OSS) development, and mailing list is one of the widely used channels for developers to share and communicate architecture information. This work investigates the nature of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tingting Bi , Wei Ding , Peng Liang , Antony Tang

Data from software repositories have become an important foundation for the empirical study of software engineering processes. A recurring theme in the repository mining literature is the inference of developer networks capturing e.g.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Christoph Gote , Ingo Scholtes , Frank Schweitzer

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

We see that the collaborative and participatory nature of software development continues to evolve, shape and be shaped by communication channels that are used by developer communities of practice--both by traditional communication channels…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Alexey Zagalsky

The social community in open source software developers has a complex network structure. The network structure represents the relations between the project and the engineer in the software developer's community. A project forms some teams…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Takumi Ichimura , Takuya Uemoto

GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a valuable means to study teamwork and collaboration. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Milo Z. Trujillo , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , James Bagrow

The npm (Node Package Manager) ecosystem is the most important package manager for JavaScript development with millions of users. Consequently, a plethora of earlier work investigated how vulnerability reporting, patch propagation, and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rajdeep Ghosh , Shiladitya De , Mainack Mondal

In a wave of growth, open-source projects need to modernize and change how they deal with processes, methods, and communication with their contributors. We could observe that open-source projects are constantly evolving to improve their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Joselito Júnior , Gláucya Boechat , Ivan Machado