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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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohamed Ouf , Shayan Noei , Zeph Van Iterson , Mariam Guizani , Ying Zou

Background: By creating ecosystems around platforms of Open Source Software (OSS) and Open Data (OD), and adopting open collaborative development practices, platform providers may exploit open innovation benefits. However, adopting such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Johan Linåker , Per Runeson

Open-source software (OSS) is foundational to modern digital infrastructure, yet this context for group work continues to struggle to ensure sufficient contributions in many critical cases. This literature review explores how artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 S M Rakib UI Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins

Software libraries are the elementary building blocks of open source software ecosystems, extending the capabilities of programming languages beyond their standard libraries. Although ecosystem health is often quantified using data on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Gábor Mészáros , Johannes Wachs

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

[Context and motivation] Ecosystems developed as Open Source Software (OSS) are considered to be highly innovative and reactive to new market trends due to their openness and wide-ranging contributor base. Participation in OSS often implies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Johan Linåker , Patrick Rempel , Björn Regnell , Patrick Mäder

Commit is an important operation of revision control for open-source software (OSS). Recent research has been pursued to explore the statistical laws of such an operation, but few of those papers conduct empirical investigations on commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Yutao Ma , Yang Wu , Youwei Xu

Objective: Our objective is to explore how public entities in the role of platform providers can address this issue by enabling collaboration within their OGD ecosystems, both in terms of the OGD published on the underpinning platform, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Johan Linåker , Per Runeson

Context: Software-intensive organizations' rationale for sharing Open Source Software (OSS) may be driven by both idealistic, strategic and commercial objectives, and include both monetary as well as non-monetary benefits. To gain the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Johan Linåker , Björn Regnell

Open Source Software (OSS) project success relies on crowd contributions. When an issue arises in pull-request based systems, @-mentions are used to call on people to task; previous studies have shown that @-mentions in discussions are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-25 David Kavaler , Premkumar Devanbu , Vladimir Filkov

Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work has pointed out two kinds of risks in these systems: that technical problems like bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs

Generative AI (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in open source software (OSS). Beyond completing code and documentation, GenAI is increasingly involved in issues, pull requests, code reviews, and security reports. Yet,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Wenhao Yang , Runzhi He , Minghui Zhou

The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a number of years with no signs of slowing. Driving this growth is the widespread availability of libraries and frameworks that provide many functionalities. Developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Stan Zajdel , Diego Elias Costa , Hafedh Mili

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

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

Scientific open-source software (Sci-OSS) projects are critical for advancing research, yet sustaining these projects long-term remains a major challenge. This paper explores the sustainability of Sci-OSS hosted on GitHub, focusing on two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sharif Ahmed , Addi Malviya Thakur , Gregory R. Watson , Nasir U. Eisty

Usability is a crucial factor but one of the most neglected concerns in open source software (OSS). While far from an ideal approach, a common practice that OSS communities adopt to collaboratively address usability is through discussions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Arghavan Sanei , Jinghui Cheng

Documenting frameworks provides its users and maintainers useful information on that software's architecture, design, and customization. Despite documentation's importance, the process of creating and maintaining it is considered to imply…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 João Santos , Filipe Correia

Open-source software (OSS) development relies on effective collaboration among distributed contributors. Yet, current OSS project recommendation systems primarily emphasize technical attributes, overlooking the collaboration and community…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shashiwadana Nirmani , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Xiao Liu

The development Open Source Software fundamentally depends on the participation and commitment of volunteer developers to progress. Several works have presented strategies to increase the on-boarding and engagement of new contributors, but…