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

Context Commercial open source software (COSS) and community open source software
(OSS) are two types of open source software. The former is the newer concept with the …

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 …

Many organisations are dependent upon long-term sustainable software systems and
associated communities. In this paper we consider long-term sustainability of Open Source …

Large open source software projects often have a globally distributed development team.
Studies have shown developer turnover has a significant impact on the project success …

Context GitHub hosts an impressive number of high-quality OSS projects. However,
selecting “the right tool for the job” is a challenging task, because we do not have precise …

Technical debt refers to the phenomena of taking shortcuts to achieve short term gain at the
cost of higher maintenance efforts in the future. Recently, approaches were developed to …

Packaging software into containers is becoming a common practice when deploying
services in cloud and other environments. Docker images are one of the most popular …

Context Although reliability is a major concern of most open source projects, research on
this problem has attracted attention only recently. In addition, the optimal version-dating for …