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Why do developers take breaks from contributing to OSS projects? A preliminary analysis
Creating a successful and sustainable Open Source Software (OSS) project
often depends on the strength and the health of the community behind it.
Current literature explains the contributors' lifecycle, starting with the
motivations that drive people to contribute and barriers to joining OSS
projects, covering developers' evolution until they become core members.
However, the stages when developers leave the projects are still weakly
explored and are not well-defined in existing developers' lifecycle models. In
this position paper, we enrich the knowledge about the leaving stage by
identifying sleeping and dead states, representing temporary and permanent
brakes that developers take from contributing. We conducted a preliminary set
of semi-structured interviews with active developers. We analyzed the answers
by focusing on defining and understanding the reasons for the transitions
to/from sleeping and dead states. This paper raises new questions that may
guide further discussions and research, which may ultimately benefit OSS
communities
Open Source Software Development Challenges: A Systematic Literature Review on GitHub
Git is used as the distributed version control system for many open-source
software projects. One Git-based service, GitHub, is the most common code
hosting and repository service for open-source software projects. For
researchers that study software engineering, the content that is hosted on
these platforms provides much valuable data. There are some alternatives to get
GitHub data such as GitHub Archive, GitHub API or GHTorrent. Among these
options, GHTorrent is the most widely known and used GitHub dataset in the
literature. Although there are some review studies about software engineering
challenges across the GitHub platform, no review of GHTorrent dataset-specific
research is available. In this study, the 172 studies that use GHTorrent as a
data source were categorized within the scope of open source software
development challenges and a systematic literature review was carried out.
Moreover, the pros and cons of the dataset have been indicated and the focused
issues of the literature on and the open challenges have been noted.Comment: This is old version, It include typo errors based on latex, I cant
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