Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more package managers.
The software packages distributed by such package managers form large software …

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 …

The 2020 Solarwinds attack was a tip** point that caused a heightened awareness about
the security of the software supply chain and in particular the large amount of trust placed in …

The node package manager (npm) serves as the frontend to a large repository of JavaScript-
based software packages, which foster the development of currently huge amounts of server …

Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more open source software
packaging ecosystem (s), containing a large collection of interdependent software packages …

Open-source projects do not exist in a vacuum. They benefit from reusing other projects and
themselves are being reused by others, creating complex networks of interdependencies, ie …

Software development has always inherently required multitasking: developers switch
between coding, reviewing, testing, designing, and meeting with colleagues. The advent of …

When develo** software packages in a software ecosystem, an important and well-known
challenge is how to deal with dependencies to other packages. In presence of multiple …

Issues associated with a lack of diversity and inclusivity persist in the domain of free/libre
and open source software (FLOSS) development and in software development generally …