Matching skills, past collaboration, and limited competition: Modeling when open-source projects attract contributors

H Fang, J Herbsleb, B Vasilescu - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Attracting and retaining new developers is often at the heart of open-source project
sustainability and success. Previous research found many intrinsic (or endogenous) project …

Do contributing files provide information about oss newcomers' onboarding barriers?

F Fronchetti, DC Shepherd, I Wiese, C Treude… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Effectively onboarding newcomers is essential for the success of open source projects.
These projects often provide onboarding guidelines in their'CONTRIBUTING'files (eg …

The Schulze method of voting

M Schulze - ar** Study of the Onboarding Process in Software Development Organizations
SP Perpétua, SL Vieira, CS Portela… - Proceedings of the XXII …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The onboarding process refers to the organizational integration or socialization of new
employees to the company and their role. This includes training, orientation, support, and …

Personalized First Issue Recommender for Newcomers in Open Source Projects

W **ao, J Li, H He, R Qiu, M Zhou - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many open source projects provide good first issues (GFIs) to attract and retain newcomers.
Although several automated GFI recommenders have been proposed, existing …

Applying large language models to issue classification

G Aracena, K Luster, F Santos, I Steinmacher… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Effective prioritization of issue reports in software engineering helps to optimize resource
allocation and information recovery. However, manual issue classification is laborious and …

Trusting code in the wild: Exploring contributor reputation measures to review dependencies in the Rust ecosystem

S Hamer, N Imtiaz, M Tamanna, P Shabrina… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Developers rely on open-source packages and must review dependencies to safeguard
against vulnerable or malicious upstream code. A careful review of all dependencies …

Supporting the task-driven skill identification in open source project issue tracking systems

F Santos - ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2023 - dl.acm.org
[Background] Selecting an appropriate task is challenging for contributors to Open Source
Software (OSS), mainly for those who are contributing for the first time. Therefore …