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Open-source software (OSS) projects rely on effective newcomer onboarding to sustain their communities. OSS projects widely adopt "good first issue" (GFI) labels to highlight beginner-friendly tasks. As development practices continue to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hirotatsu Hoshikawa , Hidetake Tanaka , Kazumasa Shimari , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Kenichi Matsumoto

Newcomers are critical for the success and continuity of open source software (OSS) projects. To attract newcomers and facilitate their onboarding, many OSS projects recommend tasks for newcomers, such as good first issues (GFIs). Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xin Tan , Yiran Chen , Haohua Wu , Minghui Zhou , Li Zhang

Sustaining newcomer participation is critical for the long-term health of open-source communities. Although prior research has explored various task recommendation approaches to help newcomers resolve their first-issue, these methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yichen Hao , Weiwei Xu , Kai Gao , Xiaofang Zhang

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

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

Selecting an appropriate task is challenging for contributors to Open Source Software (OSS), mainly for those who are contributing for the first time. Therefore, researchers and OSS projects have proposed various strategies to aid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Fabio Santos

Successful open source communities are constantly looking for new members and helping them become active developers. A common approach for developer onboarding in open source projects is to let newcomers focus on relevant yet easy-to-solve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Christoph Stanik , Lloyd Montgomery , Daniel Martens , Davide Fucci , Walid Maalej

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

Newcomers to a software project must overcome many barriers before they can successfully place their first code contribution, and they often struggle to find information that is relevant to them. In this work, we argue that much of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Christoph Treude , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel

New contributors often struggle to find tasks that they can tackle when onboarding onto a new Open Source Software (OSS) project. One reason for this difficulty is that issue trackers lack explanations about the knowledge or skills needed…

The ability of an Open Source Software (OSS) project to attract, onboard, and retain any newcomer is vital to its livelihood. Although, evidence suggests an upsurge in novice developers joining social coding platforms (such as GitHub), the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 IFraz Rehman , Dong Wang , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Kenichi Matsumoto

Effective prioritization of issue reports is crucial in software engineering to optimize resource allocation and address critical problems promptly. However, the manual classification of issue reports for prioritization is laborious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Gabriel Aracena , Kyle Luster , Fabio Santos , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

Recommender systems suffer from the cold-start problem whenever a new user joins the platform or a new item is added to the catalog. To address item cold-start, we propose to replace the embedding layer in sequential recommenders with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kuba Weimann , Tim O. F. Conrad

Recommendation systems help users find matched items based on their previous behaviors. Personalized recommendation becomes challenging in the absence of historical user-item interactions, a practical problem for startups known as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuansheng Wu , Huachi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Wenlin Yao , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu

Open Source Software (OSS) projects rely on a continuous stream of new contributors for their livelihood. Recent studies reported that new contributors experience many barriers in their first contribution, with the social barrier being…

Application programming interfaces (APIs) offer a plethora of functionalities for developers to reuse without reinventing the wheel. Identifying the appropriate APIs given a project requirement is critical for the success of a project, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ferdian Thung , Richard J. Oentaryo , David Lo , Yuan Tian

The federated recommendation system is an emerging AI service architecture that provides recommendation services in a privacy-preserving manner. Using user-relation graphs to enhance federated recommendations is a promising topic. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijjian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

In modern recommender systems, especially in e-commerce, predicting multiple targets such as click-through rate (CTR) and post-view conversion rate (CTCVR) is common. Multi-task recommender systems are increasingly popular in both research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yue Ding , Yanbiao Ji , Xun Cai , Xin Xin , Yuxiang Lu , Suizhi Huang , Chang Liu , Xiaofeng Gao , Tsuyoshi Murata , Hongtao Lu
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