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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Social Diversity and Growth Levels of Open Source Software Projects on GitHub |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| ISBN | 9781450344272 |
| Page Range | 1 - 6 |
| Event Title | the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Ciudad Real, Spain |
| Event Start Date | October 8 - 2016 |
| Event End Date | October 9 - 2016 |
| Place of Publication | New York, New York, USA |
| Publisher | ACM Press |
| Abstract Text | Background: Projects of all sizes and impact are leveraging the services of the social coding platform GitHub to collaborate. Since users' information and actions are recorded, GitHub has been mined for over 6 years now to investigate aspects of the collaborative open source software (OSS) development paradigm. Aim: In this research, we use this data to investigate the relation between project growth as a proxy for success, and social diversity. Method: We first categorize active OSS projects into a five-star rating using a benchmarking system we based on various project growth metrics; then we study the relation between this rating and the reported social diversities for the team members of those projects. Results: Our findings highlight a statistically significant relation; however, the effect is small. Conclusions: Our findings suggest the need for further research on this topic; moreover, the proposed benchmarking method may be used in future work to determine OSS project success on collaboration platforms such as GitHub. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1145/2961111.2962633 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:20276 |
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