Open source is experiencing a renaissance period, due to the appearance of modern
platforms and workflows for develo** and maintaining public code. As a result, developers …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to characterize reconciliation among the plan-
driven, agile, and free/open source software models of software development. DESIGN …

Many software development methodologies are called" open source." However simply
stating that a project is open source doesn't precisely describe the approach used to support …

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 …

Research in the mining of software repositories has frequently ignored commits that include
a large number of files (we call these large commits). The main goal of this paper is to …

Apart from source code, software infrastructures supporting agile and distributed software
projects contain traces of developer activity that does not directly affect the product itself but …

Open Source Software (OSS) is continuously gaining acceptance in commercial
organizations. It is in this regard that those organizations strive for a better understanding of …

Open source software is built by teams of volunteers. Each project has a core team of
developers, who have the authority to commit changes to the repository; this team is the …

Context: Onboarding is a process that helps newcomers become integrated members of
their organisation. Successful onboarding programs can result in increased performance in …

With the emergence of social coding platforms, collaboration has become a key and
dynamic aspect to the success of software projects. In such platforms, developers have to …