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Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, and other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims. Ideology, as a coherent…

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Usability and user experience (UX) issues are often not well emphasized and addressed in open source software (OSS) development. There is an imperative need for supporting OSS communities to collaboratively identify, understand, and fix UX…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Usability is an increasing concern in open source software (OSS). Given the recent changes in the OSS landscape, it is imperative to examine the OSS contributors' current valued factors, practices, and challenges concerning usability. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wenting Wang , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

The diverse community members who contribute to the discussions on issue tracking systems of open-source software projects often exhibit complex affective states such as sentiments and tones. These affective states can significantly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Arghavan Sanei , Jinghui Cheng , Bram Adams

Creating a successful and sustainable Open Source Software (OSS) project often depends on the strength and the health of the community behind it. Current literature explains the contributors' lifecycle, starting with the motivations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Giuseppe Iaffaldano , Igor Steinmacher , Fabio Calefato , Marco Gerosa , Filippo Lanubile

Collaborative activities among knowledge workers such as software developers underlie the development of modern society, but the in-depth understanding of their behavioral patterns in open online communities is very challenging. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hongrui Wu , Xiaowan Shi , Yutao Ma

Open-source software (OSS) community managers face significant challenges in retaining contributors, as they must monitor activity and engagement while navigating complex dynamics of collaboration. Current tools designed for managing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zixuan Feng , Katie Kimura , Bianca Trinkenreich , Igor Steinmacher , Marco Gerosa , Anita Sarma

Encompassing a diverse population of developers, non-technical users, organizations, and many other stakeholders, open source software (OSS) development has expanded to broader social movements from the initial product development aims.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Yang Yue , Yi Wang , David Redmiles

Understanding the collective social behavior of software developers is crucial to model and predict the long-term dynamics and sustainability of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. To this end, we analyze temporal activity patterns of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Lisi Qarkaxhija , Maximilian Capraro , Stefan Menzel , Bernhard Sendhoff , Ingo Scholtes

Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) projects aim to address critical societal challenges, such as healthcare access and community safety. Understanding the community dynamics and contributor patterns in these projects is essential…

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Open-source software (OSS) often needs to be built by roles who are not contributors. Despite the prevalence of build issues experienced by non-contributors, there is a lack of studies on this topic. This paper presents a study aimed at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sunzhou Huang , Xiaoyin Wang

Contributors to open source software (OSS) communities assume diverse roles to take different responsibilities. One major limitation of the current OSS tools and platforms is that they provide a uniform user interface regardless of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

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

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…

Open-source software is released under an open-source licence, which means the software can be shared, adapted, and reshared without prejudice. In the context of open-source software, community managers manage the communities that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Raphael Sonabend , Anna Carnegie , Anne Lee Steele , Marie Nugent , Malvika Sharan

While there has been substantial empirical work identifying factors that influence the contribution to, and use of open source software, we have as yet little theory that identifies the key constructs and relationships that would allow us…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Nicolas Jullien , Klaas-Jan Stol , James Herbsleb

Open source software ecosystems are composed of a variety of stakeholders including but not limited to non-profit organizations, volunteer contributors, users, and corporations. The needs and motivations of these stakeholders are often…

The objective of this research is to analyse the ways members of open-source software communities participate in design. In particular we focus on how users of an Open Source (OS) programming language (Python) participate in adding new…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Flore Barcellini , Françoise Détienne , Jean-Marie Burkhardt

Open source software (OSS) has been playing a fundamental role in not only information technology but also our social lives. Attracted by various advantages of OSS, increasing commercial companies take extensive participation in open source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xuetao Li , Yuxia Zhang , Cailean Osborne , Minghui Zhou , Zhi Jin , Hui Liu

Open source development, to a great extent, is a type of social movement in which shared ideologies play critical roles. For participants of open source development, ideology determines how they make sense of things, shapes their thoughts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yang Yue , Xiaoran Yu , Xinyi You , Yi Wang , David Redmiles