There has been some recent clamor about the developer layoff and turnover policies enacted by high-profile corporate executives. Precisely defining the contributions in software development has always been a thorny issue, as it is difficult to establish a developer’s “performance” without recurring to guesswork, due to how software development works and how Git persists history. Taking inspiration from a seemingly informal notion, the pony factor, we present an approach to identify the key developers in a software project. We present an analysis of 1,011 GitHub repositories, providing fact-based reflections on development contributions.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Human Aspects IResearch Papers / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at Golden Gate A Chair(s): Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA | ||
11:00 15mTalk | A Longitudinal Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention Research Papers Zihan Fang Vanderbilt University, Madeline Endres University of Michigan, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Denae Ford Microsoft Research, Westley Weimer University of Michigan, Kevin Leach Vanderbilt University, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Do CONTRIBUTING files provide information about OSS newcomers' onboarding barriers? Research Papers Felipe Fronchetti Virginia Commonwealth University, David C. Shepherd Louisiana State University, Igor Scaliante Wiese Federal University of Technology – Paraná - UTFPR, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career Journal First Yang Yue University of California, Irvine, Yi Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, David Redmiles University of California, Irvine Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
11:45 15mTalk | How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects? Research Papers Wenxin Xiao School of Computer Science, Peking University, Hao He Carnegie Mellon University, Weiwei Xu Peking University, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Minghui Zhou Peking University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Matching Skills, Past Collaboration, and Limited Competition: Modeling When Open-Source Projects Attract Contributors Research Papers Hongbo Fang Carnegie Mellon University, James Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University Media Attached | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Contribution-based Firing of Developers? Ideas, Visions and Reflections Vincenzo Orrei Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Marco Raglianti Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Csaba Nagy Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Michele Lanza Software Institute - USI, Lugano Media Attached | ||