Context: The pull-based development model is widely used in open source projects, leading
to the emergence of trends in distributed software development. One aspect that has …

Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that
maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, eg, vulnerabilities being …

Open Source Software plays an important role in many software ecosystems. Whether in
operating systems, network stacks, or as low-level system drivers, software we encounter …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) plays an important role in the digital economy. Yet
although software production is amenable to remote collaboration and its outputs are digital …

Crowdfunding offers inventors and entrepreneurs alternative access to resources with which
they can develop and realize their ideas. Besides hel** to secure capital, crowdfunding …

Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused large scale destruction, significant
loss of life, and the displacement of millions of people. Besides those fleeing direct conflict in …

The great success of numerous community-based open source software (OSS) is based on
volunteers continuously submitting contributions, but ensuring sustainability is a persistent …

When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often
referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However …

For most Open Source Software (OSS) projects, issues and Pull-requests (PR) are the
primary means by which stakeholders of a project report and discuss software problems and …

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 …